Increasing Marijuana Use in High School Is Reported

It's only going to get worse if/as more states change their laws:

 

Young people are also the fastest growing sector of coffee drinkers.

 

If this indicates that high schoolers have begun replacing alcohol with marijuana, then that is a good thing. Not bad.

 

Would you like to back up that statement, Stone(r)y?

 

But it will lead to use of stronger narcotics. I learned that from Joe Friday
on Dragnet.

 

Just common sense. Compared to alcohol, marijuana is by nature less dangerous, less physiologically addictive, destroys far fewer lives, and is less likely to cause mayhem, menace and/or death.

The only thing significantly worse about marijuana compared to alcohol is its current legal status, which is illogical and rapidly changing.

We'd be best off with high schoolers that do no drugs. But, if forced into a "choice of drugs" scenario, and setting aside the legality issues, a high schooler is doing less damage and posing lesser risk by smoking weed than guzzling booze.

 

Considering that outer suburbs in Chicago are scrambling to figure out how to deal with a spike in heroin use -- particularly among high schoolers -- they'd probably appreciate it if students turned to weed. They'd be unmotivated, but they wouldn't be dead.

http://napervillemagazine.com/2012/09/heroin-highway-napervilles-crusade-against-an-addictive-and-deadly-drug/

 

What about at "moderate" levels?

Alcohol is easily processed by the body, is water soluble, and you piss it out. Marijuana is fat soluble, and stays in the body longer:

It's particularly bad for the developing brain:

It also has all the negative consequences as traditional cigarets.

If you had the choice between allowing your 18-year-old son to have a glass of wine each night with dinner, or to smoke one joint after dinner, which would you choose?

 

The relevant choice is not between a joint and a glass of wine. It's between a joint and, say, four or five glasses of wine. Or 7-8 beers.