Teen Drug Use of Marijuana, Ecstasy on an Upswing

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This is a complex issue. Kids have always pushed parental and social boundaries. In the way-back old days, they'd go out behind the woodshed and smoke corn silk cigarettes, as well as sneak a cig or two from mom and dad, which usually made them sick as dogs. Then it was a lot of booze, alcohol ODs at frat parties.

60s-70s came along without enough information on drugs in general. Coke was thought to not be addictive (Hah!). Kids found out that pot wasn't addictive (though amotivational disorder was clearly a serious side effect for moderate-to-heavy users). Teens saw that pot wasn't as the government described because they bundled it with the hard stuff. In turn, this led to mistrust of "authorities".

The dangerous progression that followed was the belief that cocaine wasn't addictive, although heroin remained scary for most. Next, Angel Dust reared its ugly head, and kids still thought that it wasn't dangerous either. Addiction to that scumbag drug created hideous rage attacks sending people to ERs with a side effect of almost unimagineably superhuman strength to the point that it would take several orderlies to bring a guy down and get him into restraints.

Today, kids are ignorantly lumping Ecstasy into that same grab bag of disbelief, even though we've know for at least 15 years that it's a dirty drug. Today, the above statistics reveal the typical adolescent sense of immortality. Drinking and drugging contribute to kids having way-too-early sex, paying the consequences in profound side effects, such as brain damage, ODs leading to death, STDs that can end in female infertility.

We, as parents, must tell our children fact-based truth from the earliest grades. Obviously the war against drugs is a miserable failure. Legalization of pot would be a step forward in that it would separate this far less dangerous drug from those that can kill, and in so doing quite probably clarify the danger of the other ones.

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It's not as simple as sending teens to a rehab center. There are things that stress us out-many people may not see it this way, but stuff like the economy and politics and the stupid decisions/actions of adults throughout the world(war, abuse, hate crimes) depresses the young people that hear about it and encourages them, subcxonsciously, to adopt behavior like this. Teen substance abuse can't be stamped out overnight, the environment has to be changed as well. If the world was a perfectly happy place, there wouldn't be problems like this. I'm a teen myself, and I have friends who are depressed to the point of doing substance abuse. I've seen with my own eyes how it comes about. The world is eventually going to end up on the shoulders of these teens, and it's messed up to the point that many no longer have hope for it or themselves.

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Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Psalms 16:11

If enough Americans derived pleasures from that source, drug cartels would have no market for their wares in the USA.

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If parents spent more time communicating with their kids instead of yeling at them they would have mjore self-esteem to live above the influence of drugs/alcohol. As a single mom of three boys none do drugs; all work/go to school - why? Because I was always the major influence in their lives, not their friends. If I said so-and-so is a bad influence stay away from them - they listened to me!

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My 18 yr old son who is in HS has Fibromyalgia. He is in constant pain. I caught him with pot and he confess that he smoked it and it helped with the pain. He got it from a friend. I made a deal with him. If it really truly helped his pain, he could smoke it but in the house only, in the evening after homework. If he is medicated and his friends want him to go out he cant. He agreed in writing as a contract. If this promise is broken he loses the use of the care and my trust would be forever broken. ITs been 6 months and his pain has decreased, he is pulling all "A"'s in school and on his way to college in Sept.If I put down the law with him he would have smoked it out of the house, would have driven home and this alernative was worse than what I proposed. We both love and respect and trust eachother .This all depends on the relationship the child and parent have with eachother,,,,Im thankful that it worked out for the best for US even thou Im sure there are many critics to what Im doing.

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Unfortunately, a lot of parents of these teens forgot to grow up themselves and still use drugs, exposing thier kids to it. The kids are learning from thier parents. There are alot of people in thier 30-40's who never gave it up. It's no wonder the teenage use is spiking.

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And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. Genesis 1:29


LEGALIZE MARIJUANA

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And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Genesis 1:29
there are many herbs on earth, marijuana is one.

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Also it's really nice for you to show such a nice picture that doesn't at all start this off in a negative light. This is propaganda. The only way to truely analyze something is from a neutral prospective, but I'm sure you already knew that. Good Article!

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