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D-Notice Donating Member (820 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 01:48 PM
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Pot Use Down Where Medical Use OK
From the LA Times:

SACRAMENTO — Bucking dire predictions by anti-drug warriors, the 10 states that approved medical marijuana laws over the last decade have experienced sharp declines in cannabis use among teenagers, according to a new study by a marijuana advocacy group.

California has seen usage among ninth-graders drop 47% since 1996, the year the state became the nation's first to legalize medical marijuana. Over the same period, the nation as a whole experienced a 43% decline among eighth-graders.

"If medical marijuana laws send the wrong message to children," the authors said, widespread attention to the debate "would be expected to produce a nationwide increase in marijuana use, the largest increase in those states enacting medical marijuana laws. But just the opposite has occurred."


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SmokingJacket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 01:50 PM
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1. "Hey, I'm not gonna smoke pot, my GRANDMA smokes pot!"
hahaha.

I could have told them that. I grew up in a family of heavy smokers and NOTHING could be less cool to me now.
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