http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/pressrel/pr042605.html In short a girl takes bad E and the kids try to cure her with pot, the article says that if there was no medical marijuana at all things like this wouldnt happen and the boys would have just called 911. Or maybe she shoulda known what she was taking...
"As awareness of the harm of marijuana grew, the number of cannabis coffeehouses in the Netherlands decreased 36 percent in six years." the coffeehouses aren't being closed down because of growing awareness of mj harm, it's because their new government (a strongly christian one) is influenced by the US's policy on drugs.. i hate it when authors tie in two sentences that do not go together in order to spread lies.. "Marijuana use by Canadian teenagers is at a 25-year peak in the wake of an aggressive decriminalization movement." and this means that it's a bad thing? if people buy more cars is it a bad thing?-since cars have a more possible chance of death if you crash, but "crashing" with weed involves an urge to eat and a healthy nap.. "Shocking to many is that more teens are in treatment each year for marijuana dependence than for alcohol and all other illegal drugs combined." this is often because when youths are caught with weed they are given the choice of jail or therapy.. guess which one they will most likely choose.. they are forced into becoming a statistic, a "volunteered" treatment.. ya right.. "Marijuana is a gateway drug. In drug law enforcement, rarely do we meet heroin or cocaine addicts who did not start their drug use with marijuana." mj CAN be a gateway drug if you let it.. these people do not represent EVERY toker in the world.. i've never touched any drugs except mj, nicotine, caffeine, and sugar, and acetominophen (advil/tylenol), and alcohol.. some people have their first beer before their first joint so what's the real gateway drug? "Marijuana contains more than 400 chemicals, of which 60 are cannabinoids. Smoking a marijuana cigarette deposits about three to five times more tar into the lungs than one filtered tobacco cigarette. Consequently, regular marijuana smokers suffer from many of the same health problems as tobacco smokers, such as chronic coughing and wheezing, chest colds, and chronic bronchitis." the number of chemicals isn't relevant.. and i don't know any chronic tokers who suffer the same wheezing and coughing as regular tobacco smokers.. "four children and their van driver-nicknamed Smokey by the children for his regular marijuana smoking-died in April 2002 when a Tippy Toes Learning Academy van veered off a freeway and hit a concrete bridge abutment. He was found at the crash scene with marijuana in his pocket" they didn't specifiy how the car crashed.. maybe it was an accident and he happened to have mj in his pocket.. the same happens when there's a car accident, they get drug tested and mj pops up even though they didn't smoke for say a week then they blame it on weed.. ********************************************************* and about the girl who died on X, she had real stupid friends.. chances are that they wouldn't have gotten in much trouble over that since they were only 14.. that doesn't mean they can blame this incident on pot, blame the stupid fuckin' kids..