10 Things Every Teen Should Know About Marijuana
1. Marijuana is illegal. Using, holding, buying, or selling marijuana can get you suspended or expelled from school. This will hurt your chances of getting a job in the future.
2. Resist peer pressure. Marijuana may make you feel part of the crowd for a while; but who needs friends who could self destruct at any moment?
3. Keep on the right track. Marijuana reduces your ability to do things that require coordination and concentration, like sports, dancing, acting, and studying.
4. Think twice about what you are advertising. Do you want to promote something that can cause cancer? make you forget things? or make it difficult to drive a car? Think about what you’re doing if you wear T-shirts, hats, pins, or jewelry with a pot leaf/joint/blunt on them.
5. Do the right thing. Using marijuana hurts your education, family ties, and social life.
6. It’s a risky business. Marijuana interferes with your thinking and judgment. Sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS, violence and car crashes are all possibilities when you use marijuana.
7. Get with the program. Contrary to what you might hear in songs or see on TV or in the movies, smoking marijuana does not make you cool.
8. You can get hooked. Many users report that, over time, they require more of the drug to get the same effect.
9. Talk about your problems. Using marijuana won’t help you escape your problems, it will only create more. Don’t believe people who say that marijuana is no big deal, or that it will make your life better.
10. You don’t need it. If you think “everybody’s doing it” you’re wrong; over 86 percent of 12 – 17 year olds have never even tried marijuana. Marijuana won’t make you happy or popular or help you learn the skills you need as you grow up. You can do that with the help of friends, family, and other adults you trust.
That is the most bullshit thing I have ever seen.
1. Okay this is true I can’t deny that.
2. It’s dumb to smoke “just to be cool”, sure.
3. Yeah, but it makes things a lot more fun. Plus if your like most people and you only do it once in awhile, then you won’t have a problem with coordination. And if you smoke it every day, you probably don’t do any of that.
4. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t cause cancer even if you smoke it. I’m not sure, but I read that the THC enlarges an airway in your body? I don’t know. But I’m positive that if you do it orally or vaporize it, you can’t get cancer from marijuana.
5. Marijuana itself does not hurt these things. It is the user. Plus every person I know that does weed has a great social life.
6. Did you know that all of the things they just listed are also possible while your not high? (It doesn’t increase the risk of these happening either. I’ve never encountered a violent stoner)
7. I’ll give them that one. Except thats only my opinion. It depends on the social hierarchy of the school that the child attends.
8. It’s not addicting in a physical sense, and yes you do build up a tolerance. However, the only addiction that you will have will be a mental one. It isn’t like other drugs where you can’t just go cold turkey.
9. Using it to escape from problems is bad, but so is anything, like food. Marijuana can improve your life if done responsibly.
10. Marijuana doesn’t make you happy? Then why the fuck would people do it?! It releases dopamine inside your brain, so you get a rewarding sense. Teach you skills that you need as a grown up? Who said it does?
Conclusion: Marijuana has never directly killed anyone.
yes bob you beat me to it. it is so ironic that the government is making millions of they’re ‘legal’ drug which kills more people every year than crack and heroine COMBINED and yet still have the arrogance to persecute people who take marijuana a drug that not only still lacks a single death count but does nothing but promote tranquillity and joy amongst it users.