Comments on: Teens aware of marijuana harm and impact on mental health http://blog.teenmentalhealth.org/2009/08/06/teens-aware-of-marijuana-harm-and-impact-on-mental-health/ Understanding is the greatest insight Thu, 9 Sep 2010 10:59:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Lori http://blog.teenmentalhealth.org/2009/08/06/teens-aware-of-marijuana-harm-and-impact-on-mental-health/#comment-1542 Lori Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:10:06 +0000 http://blog.teenmentalhealth.org/?p=494#comment-1542 My 17 year old son became psychotic and is currently hospitalized. He was using Marijuana and K2.I am so scared.. My 17 year old son became psychotic and is currently hospitalized. He was using Marijuana and K2.I am so scared..

]]> By: Getreal http://blog.teenmentalhealth.org/2009/08/06/teens-aware-of-marijuana-harm-and-impact-on-mental-health/#comment-1353 Getreal Sat, 15 May 2010 15:39:02 +0000 http://blog.teenmentalhealth.org/?p=494#comment-1353 This looks like a British blog. Hard to tell. But you need to understand how damaging drug prohibition has been in the United States. Now we have violent drug gangs numbering in the millions. Millions more are incarcerated for possession of a plant that has never been shown to cause a single death. Meanwhile, alcohol and opiates-- both incredibly harmful substances-- are deemed perfectly fine by society. One you can buy at the store if you're old enough. The other, in the form of pain pills, are prescribed in huge amounts by doctors even though they are addictive and so poisonous that they kill 40,000 people a year in Russia alone-- not sure of the statistic for the United States. The only sensible answer to the "Drug Problem" is legalization along with education. Negative side effects or not, it makes no sense to keep marijuana illegal when other, far more detrimental, substances are widely available. Here in the US it appears that we're slowly backing down from decades of draconian legal craziness. Let's hope this trend continues. This looks like a British blog. Hard to tell. But you need to understand how damaging drug prohibition has been in the United States. Now we have violent drug gangs numbering in the millions. Millions more are incarcerated for possession of a plant that has never been shown to cause a single death.

Meanwhile, alcohol and opiates– both incredibly harmful substances– are deemed perfectly fine by society. One you can buy at the store if you’re old enough. The other, in the form of pain pills, are prescribed in huge amounts by doctors even though they are addictive and so poisonous that they kill 40,000 people a year in Russia alone– not sure of the statistic for the United States.

The only sensible answer to the “Drug Problem” is legalization along with education. Negative side effects or not, it makes no sense to keep marijuana illegal when other, far more detrimental, substances are widely available. Here in the US it appears that we’re slowly backing down from decades of draconian legal craziness. Let’s hope this trend continues.

]]> By: add-adhd children http://blog.teenmentalhealth.org/2009/08/06/teens-aware-of-marijuana-harm-and-impact-on-mental-health/#comment-729 add-adhd children Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:15:27 +0000 http://blog.teenmentalhealth.org/?p=494#comment-729 In our society joots/marijuana is already rampant in most community. It looks like a normal cigars for others and even can't imagine the age gap of using marijuana it gets younger and younger most especially teens. It is like a candy that you can buy on the street. In our society joots/marijuana is already rampant in most community. It looks like a normal cigars for others and even can’t imagine the age gap of using marijuana it gets younger and younger most especially teens. It is like a candy that you can buy on the street.

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