Marijuana Dispensaries Could Be Indirectly Feeding Teens' Pot Habits, Says Study

Duncan20903

But for some reason California doesn't even appear on this list of the top 17 States for youth use of cannabis:
http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-204_162-10008970.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody

Then there's the article in the Winter 2011 edition of California Pediatrician magazine written by Seth Ammerman MD (page 11) in which Dr. Ammerman looks at the statistics and learns that not a single State with a medicinal cannabis patient protection law has suffered a statistically significant increase in youth use of cannabis subsequent to implementation of that law. http://www.aap-ca.org/news/caPed/California%20Pediatrician%20-%20Winter%202011.pdf

But don't worry Dennis, no one expects you to be honest when you write about this subject.

Cannabis_College

bad propaganda article. Ok, so use in teens has increased you say?? Oh no, more teens are using marijuana, I mean "pot" to get high and no one is getting hurt...what's the big deal??? It's not like when teens get drunk and go crash onto an on coming car and kill a family, or when teens grab their parents guns and go kill people in schools.....naaaah, they are smoking weed and it's not hurting anyone, including themselves. http://420college.org

djromero moderator editortopcommenter

@Cannabis_College You're using this forum to advertise but you call my piece propaganda? Facts are facts.

KaytotheTee

@djromero @Cannabis_College

Dennis, YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO INTERPRET THE FACTS. That you would say that to anyone is so laughable, because so many people, including me, have told you that you absolutely have no idea what you are doing when it comes to numbers--in this article, you are MAKING THINGS UP!--but you persist! You are a BAD JOURNALIST. Like a really, really bad one! Why do you absolutely refuse to learn how to interpret these numbers or listen to anyone who does know how? You are not considering the source, you're not considering the methods, you're not considering that your interpretation is COMPLETELY THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT THOSE NUMBERS SAY.

Yet you talk about "facts"? You ABUSE FACTS TO THE POINT THAT THEY BECOME FALSE.

KaytotheTee

@djromero @Cannabis_College

Bottom line, Dennis: YOU'RE WRONG.

No amount of snively pseudo-scientific statements or talking around the issues will change that.

YOU'RE WRONG.

KaytotheTee

@djromero @Cannabis_College

If you want to talk FACTS, here is what your headline should say:

89% OF ARIZONA TEENS WHO SMOKE POT DO NOT GET THEIR POT FROM PEOPLE WITH MEDICAL RECS

But then you wouldn't have a sensationalist little story, would you? It's a bad story and it's a bad interpretation. You have NO idea what you are talking about. Do you think the "numbers" exist in a vacuum, clear and free of factors like funding sources, data interpreters, methods, etc.? Yes, you do. And THAT is why you should NEVER write stories like these. Plain and simple, you don't know what you're talking about.

Cannabis_College

@djromero @Cannabis_College ok, without looking at that link, can you reply to my comment?? you know it's propaganda. teens have addiction issues with prescription drugs, while it's widely known that marijuana is not addictive and has health benefits. and if you listen to the government, they'll tell you that it's worse then cocaine, heroin and meth, that's why those are in Schedule II in the Controlled Substance Act.

Cannabis_College

@djromero How's that for adverting??

Cannabis_College

@djromero

On the one hand, United States federal government officials have consistently denied that marijuana has any medical benefits. On the other, the government actually holds patents for the medical use of the plant.

Just check out US Patent 6630507 titled “Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants” which is assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services.

maxwood

Dennis, I wish you had mentioned studies indicating that teen abuse of drugs like alcohol and tobacco has been dropping-- ever asked yourself why? What is wrong with using cannabis (zero medically proven deaths) to bypass addictive tobacco (6,000,000 deaths per year, WHO estimate) and alcohol (2,500,000 deaths per year, WHO esrtimate) as a means of "proving" oneself "cool" enough to survive in a tough urban school environment?

Your use of terms like "pot" (rhymes with "hot", "caught") and "the drug" (and the header picture of a huge cloud of wasted expensive "smoke") prejudices the issue. Look at it this way: rolled in a hot-burning 500-mg joint, cannabis is part of a drug cocktail including heat shock, carbon monoxide and 421 other combustion toxins, with results conventionally blamed on the cannabis; today we have vaporizers and 25-mg serving size one-hitters with which herb benefits (inspiration, creativity) can be safely realized.

Under present laws, whether teens obtain marijuana through dispensary customers is moot. After legalization, it will be possible for them to experience moderate use in a parentally supervised family setting and chances of a "drug problem" emerging are slight (compared with almost 20% tobacco addiction among adult Americans today).