Comments on: Marijuana, synthetic drug use on the rise among teens

By: will

will — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:51:58 +0000

Marijuana is the most common drug that teens are using nowadays. I am not surprised if I hear that more and more teens are using it. And no wonder that more and more teens use even stronger drugs after they taste marijuana. Everyone should be concerned regarding the issue because the community is very affected if there is a rotten a member.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:17:59 +0000

Dear god. Saying that marijuana is a potential gateway drug a thousand times but just one mention of Bromo-dragonFLY? Read the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromo-DragonFLY

Several people are known to have overdosed and died on the experimental chemical, which is just slightly less potent than LSD and often confused with other so-called “designer drugs.” But I guess that Rosecrance can’t make money off a corpse.

Why would a commercial rehab center demonize marijuana, which has no documented cases of fatal overdose, several well-researched health benefits, and can be vaporized (therefore negating or greatly reducing the carcinogenic aspect)? Well I guess it pays to stay in business, since they are counseling people away from a substance that is not physically addictive and cannot kill you. Sounds like a great business model! Oops, except when you get people off the pot that was helping mitigate their anxiety and switch them to dangerous industrial prescription medications that can have severe side effects such as nausea and hallucinations.

Keeping marijuana away from teens is really all about another type of green.

By: John Smith

John Smith — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:05:28 +0000

Cannabis use is on the increase and alcohol and tobacco are down. Alcohol and tobacco are legal and regulated, requiring proof of age, therefore it’s becoming increasingly hard for teens to obtain them. Cannabis is illegal and basically in the hands of gangs and criminals who have no qualms about selling to kids, without any age checks whatsoever. The only way to decrease cannabis use by teens is to make it harder to get, and the best way to do that is to legalize and regulate it with strict controls and age restrictions. Also, it’s only a “gateway” because it’s sold by illegal drug dealers who introduce buyers to other, harder drugs to make more money. Come on, it’s time to legalize.

By: PhilDeBowl

PhilDeBowl — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:31:12 +0000

@john
makes you wonder about the ethics of our government,they prohibit the non toxic plant,but they sponsor the developement of dangerous drugs such as the JWH series.

By: John

John — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:29:12 +0000

The National Drug Prevention Society Of America paid a Professor to invent this.Once made they stopped funding and just sat back and waited.Like a time bomb. Along came new collage kids who had access to this research and created the K2 epidemic. JWH018. JWH are the initials of the Professor who invented the chemical in K2.

By: adrian

adrian — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:09:55 +0000

ya marijuana use in teens are up to a new all time high, but all other drugs among teens are decline. We should see this as a good thing. Marijuana isn’t a gateway drug! If marijuana is a gateway drug then milk must also be a gateway drug. I sure you drank milk before you drank alcohol. does that make milk a gateway drug to alcohol? Some people think marijuana causes cancer because some of the carcinogens found in cigarets are found in marijuana. You have to look at the product as a whole, theres never been any documented proof of marijuana causing cancer. You can find hydrogen in water, but you can find hydrogen in a hydrogen BOMB! Does that mean if you put a flame to water the water will explode? NO!