Study Finds Pot Popular with Teens
Blog, Young D
Dec 16, 2009
Let’s add this to the long list of things we already knew.
A new study found that marijuana is more popular among teenagers.
Most of my friends smoke dro. I started smoking pretty often after I turned 15, but I started young, at 12. It felt like I was in a movie. I was in Vegas with my cousins, and even though it’s sin city, smoking weed is still illegal in most places. So we had to hide, and ended up lighting up in a parking lot.
Funny thing was, it was private property. The building’s security came out and tried to arrest us. My cousin and I tired to run, but got caught. The guards ended up releasing us, but it was definitely a crazy experience to have when you’re young and high for the first time.
When I first began smoking, I was shocked at how much weed heightened my senses. Suddenly everything was funny, and food tasted better.
But smoking so often can make life difficult. I quit smoking because I was an athlete and smoking so often made me easily lose my breath. I’ve tried to quit, but it’s not easy, especially when you’re friends ask, “Why do you want to quit?” But ultimately my friends were cool and left me alone when I told them I didn’t want to get high.
The issue is that marijuana is so easy to get. Especially here in California, all I have to do is become a member of a Cannabis club, and I’ll have access to some of the best strains of weed.
Ultimately, though, weed is harmless. I have friends who do other drugs, and weed seems lightweight in comparison. I don’t think our government should waste resources on trying regulating or stopping people from smoking weed. Especially when there are 14-year-old’s using Ecstasy. Because of the way the media criminalizes weed, younger kids often don’t see more harmful drugs, like prescriptions or Ecstasy, as truly threatening. And E pills are everywhere among kids these days.
-- Young D
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Everything we think or do has a price associated with it. Some cheap, some expensive. The same is true of our actions. The problem is, unlike the goods we buy in a store, the price for our thoughts or deeds isn't always hanging on a tag or on a label on the shelf from which we select our actions. Why? because no one actually know the outcome for sure! Do you know who grew the pot you smoked? Was it grown with a pesticide that will cause medical problems later in life? Was it cut with something that would cause sickness or death or laced by a sick person without a respect of human life? Do you know for sure? Or what about the continual association with the sellers of any drugs who are in it for the money and nothing more? The ones who say they're your friends but at the first sign of trouble they scatter like a bunch of diseased rates? Do you really know for sure?
Most young people think they are impregnable, invincible and cannot be harmed by anything or anyone. That is not the truth!
How do I know? I have had the experience of hard and soft drugs in my own life and a lifetime of experiencing the consequences of my actions. I also spend my time mentoring teenagers incarcerated for a host of different crimes associated with drug use.
I would offer this additional comment for your consideration. Whether the price is high or low; there is and will be a price - the law is: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction - (the Price) for everything we think or do.
The choice will always be yours! You may not always be able to determine the cost of the choice you make immediately upon making it so my advice is to choose wisely. If you don't know what the price is for the action you are about to take, delay the action until you can get some help to make the decision a wise one.
In my humble opinion - any drug use, no matter how benign is playing with a fire you may not be able to put out with the watering can you're holding or until the house burns down.
Thank you for deciding to quit! I believe the benefit of that decision far outweighs the cost!
Tell your friends they do not have do anything they don't completely understand.
Sometimes experiments go bad! Are they willing to pay whatever price come along?
Good luck my friend. To live a life of joy, search for who you are and what your purpose is here on this earth and you will find a high far greater than any you could possible imagine!
Sincerely,
Old B