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Is pot really the gateway drug? (pg. 4)
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| RobotHouse |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cosmic Fur
because it's legalized |
drinking under the legal age is legal?
paradox. |
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| DaRoZa |
| i think his point is, even though they're breaking the rule of drinking underage, it's not seen as much of a deviant act overall as taking 100% illegal drugs. |
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| Cosmic Fur |
| quote: | Originally posted by RobotHouse
drinking under the legal age is legal?
paradox. |
No, you're more okay with trying something that you'll be able to consume freely in a couple years than you are trying something that you'll never be able to consume freely. Duh. |
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| Trance Nutter |
research released today
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CANNABIS users who started smoking as teenagers are more likely to suffer long-term harm, including poor mental health, than drinkers who started using alcohol as adolescents, a major study has found.
Heavy users of marijuana are also more likely to graduate to other drugs such as amphetamines and ecstasy than are teenage binge drinkers.
Involving nearly 2000 Victorian high school students aged 14 or 15, the landmark study has traced their progress since 1992, and provides the first comparison of the consequences of the two substances commonly used in teenage social situations.
Researcher George Patton, who conducted the study for Melbourne University's Centre for Adolescent Heath, said that while both alcohol and cannabis carried health risks, the overwhelming evidence was that cannabis was "the drug for life's future losers".
"It's the young people who were using cannabis in their teens who were doing really badly in terms of their mental health," Professor Patton said.
"They were also less likely to be working or be qualified or in a relationship and more likely to be using other substances such as ecstasy, amphetamines, cocaine and even tobacco.
"Effectively, for a substantial number of high-risk users in our sample, cannabis was the drug that was preferred as teenagers."
Broadly, the study confirms alcohol and cannabis are commonly first used in the vulnerable adolescent years.
Of the 1943 survey participants, from 45 private and public schools around the state, 80 per cent said they had used alcohol or cannabis by the age of 17.
Almost two-thirds had tried cannabis before they turned 18.
Strikingly, those defined as heavy users from the age of 15 or 16 had by then selected one substance — alcohol or cannabis — over the other and tended to stick with their drug of choice into their 20s.
Professor Patton said the findings reflected the changing use and attitudes to cannabis by teenagers.
"Twenty or 30 years ago, cannabis was uncommonly used by teenagers," he said. "Alcohol use is still more prevalent, but cannabis use has become widespread … in many countries."
While patterns of use intensified as they grew older, only one in 25 survey participants were classified as taking either alcohol or cannabis at "very high risk levels" in their teens.
This was defined as using cannabis every day or in the case of alcohol, exceeding 43 standard drinks per week for boys or 28 for girls — more than the guidelines for very risky drinking by adults. |
Best ignore the sensationalist quote in the middle:rolleyes: |
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| Truepioneer |
| Crack opened the gateway for me |
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| Cosmic Fur |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trance Nutter
research released today
Best ignore the sensationalist quote in the middle:rolleyes: |
lol, obviously if you started blazing at 14, you're going to be a little ed up by your mid-life. |
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| Arsalan |
| quote: | Originally posted by _EuG_
I think that prohibition makes it a gateway drug. The government makes pot seem like a horrible thing. But when one experiments with pot, you come to the realization that it realy is not as bad as it is made to be out by the media/ goverment. As a result of this you lose faith in the information that the governments gives about all kinds of things. And that can lead to further research and experimnetaion of other substances as a question of authority. |
smart analogy |
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| Arsalan |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cosmic Fur
lol, obviously if you started blazing at 14, you're going to be a little ed up by your mid-life. |
thats another thing, it all depends what age you are and how mature you are when your smking pot
but Pot for president |
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| Euphorica |
umm.
for SOME people it is. to blanket it as for all people, is false imo.
but i also agree that alcohol is one too.
anyone of them can be considered that. weed(and alcohol) are just the most common ones. |
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| yeahyeahyeah |
i definitely dont think so.
certain people are going to be inclined to trying new drugs regardless.
naturallly, weed comes first because it is just the most accessible.
think about how many people smoke or try weed and never do anything stronger |
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| Ravenus |
| Yes. Pot like other drugs alters your state of mind ultimately bringing you to a different/higher level of consciousness. you are aware. Alcohol alters/inhibits your state of mind. |
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