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According to many high school students these days, there's nothing cool about cigarettes. Aside from the fact that they give you cancer and heart disease, cigarettes are also way too expensive for the average teenage budget and require identification that you're 18. There's less of a problem, it seems, with the herb.More and more high school students are thinking this way, as a new federally funded survey found that more 10th graders had smoked marijuana in the past 30 days (13.8 percent) than had smoked cigarettes (12.3 percent). Among 8th and 12th graders, doobies were also ahead of cancer sticks, though by a smaller margin.
Aaron Houston at AlterNet claims this proves anti-drug policies are failing in the U.S., and legalization of marijuana may be the only way to curb pot use among young people, much like the legal, regulated distribution of cigarettes.
Questions Raised: Do you think fewer high school kids would smoke pot if it was made legal and regulated? Furthermore, would the rest of us be baked all the time if mary jane was available at the 7-Eleven?
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Tuesday 23 December
By dustinbustinjoints
It would be tougher for high school kids to score bud if it was regulated instead of available to anybody through the black market. Drugs are much easier to get than booze in high school. Viewing the statistics in pot friendly countries such as Italy and Holland, the number of tokers will stay the about the same, only now it can be purchased in a safe environment. If people wanna toke, they are gonna toke: leagal or illegal. Bottome line... LEGALIZE!
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Monday 29 December
By Twentyfoursevenmom
Ok, I'll be the first to comment. Although I don't want my son to smoke ANYTHING, I agree that making it legal is not a bad thing. After all, from experience, I can honestly say that alcohol is much more intoxicating and dangerous. How many people do you ever hear of with THC poisoning? Plus if pot was legal, many of us chronic pain patients would be too stoned to care that we hurt 24/7!
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Monday 29 December
By Twentyfoursevenmom
oh, my bad, looks like I wasn't first comment, but nm. Also thought of all the TAXES the gov't could add on...
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Monday 29 December
By Skullie
Legalize it! There have been so many studies out there that Canibus has been a great medical drug. But of corse our goverment doesent want to make it legal because they dont know how to tax it. My question to everyone is have you ever heard of an angry pot head? Alcohol has deadly consiquences, causing liver failure, birth defects, the hazards of alcohol are more deadly that canibus. Make canibus legal!
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Monday 29 December
By Sierraaa
WOW, all you people are RETARDED. You must all be extreamly baked right now to actually believe that legalizing it would be OK. So many more accidents would accure and then America would not only be know as the fattest country, but also as the country that is stoned out of our minds.
What happens then China one day is just like "Eh, lets bomb the Americans because we want our money!"
So they bomb us and we dont know what to do because we are all STONED.
I dont think that that is a good plan.
and what happens when to all of us teens? All our lives we are told not to do it, and now the government says its ok?
well its not.
bottom line.
its not a good thing.
DONT LEGALIZE.
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Monday 29 December
By K-nee
You clearly never smoked it before.
Its time to make it legal
more accidents happen with alch then there will ever bee with pot smoking
and when they find weed in a system of someone who got in an accident they were most of the time messed up on something else
like alch do your research.
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Monday 29 December
By bored247girl
Legalize! Weed is harmless, and not everybody who smokes it does so constantly like some of you seem to imply. People are going to get it one way or another, so why not make obtaining it safer? Im sure most parents would rather have their kid walk into a store and get it from a cashier than a sketchy dealer on a dark side street at 2 in the morning, if they are going to get it somehow anyway.
The only downside is that it would be taxed.
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Monday 29 December
By bored247girl
You are an IDIOT. Do your research kid, weed is harmless. Plus, if legalized the age limit for buying it would be 18, so lets have none of this bitching about "us teens". If you dont want to smoke you dont have to, so go be ignorant somewhere where the rest of us dont have to be disgusted by your utter stupidity.
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Monday 29 December
By Mike
Well, I agree that Cannabis should be legalized because it is a losing battle that can, in fact be effectively regulated. The kids love that opinion, I'm sure. But they won't like this one.
I do however think that 18 is good for cigarettes. I don't feel the same way about Cannabis.
I believe that because Cannabis is an intoxicating substance , similar to alcohol in effect, that it should be regulated, as alcohol is.
One should be 21 to purchase it and there should be penalties like DUI for driving while under it's influence.
If this sort of regulation was put into affect, those of us who have waited will be happy and not much else about daily life will change. DUI probably won't go on the rise, drug related deaths won't go up and DUI arrests will not change by higher numbers, only the name of the charge that can be charged to the DUI offender. i.e. "Driving under the influence of Marijauna" rather than "Driving under the influence of alcohol".
Monday 29 December
By Dave
are you guys fuccing retarded weeed is proboly the worst thing you can put into you body. If you wanna be a brain dead idiot go ahead
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Monday 29 December
By janet
Ppl need to stop telling themselves these old wives tales where weed makes u dumber than a door knob and makes u go crazy. Its just not true. To say it would make us open to attack is even dumber, then I guess we're in that state already since so many of us smoke or smoked at one time. You see its not something u do for life like ciggs, alcohol, coke or heroine. There are alot of savings and profit involved for the government if they smarten up and stop listening to these conservative idiots that are so easily educated by idiots about everything they encounter.
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