CDC: Teens now favor pot over cigarettes

[ryoder 1,590]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/08/cdc-teens-now-favor-pot-over-cigarettes/

Good to see the youth wising up.
Especially impressive when one has a powerful marketing machine behind it, and the other does not.

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[Skyrad 0]

Yea, because Psychophrenia and Cancer is so much better than Cancer alone.

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[oldwomanc6 60]

FWIW, peer-pressure, especially in teens, is as powerful a marketing machine as anything on this planet

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/08/cdc-teens-now-favor-pot-over-cigarettes/

Good to see the youth wising up.
Especially impressive when one has a powerful marketing machine behind it, and the other does not.

with the rush to make smokers fund more day care centers and other random programs, is pot now the more affordable choice?

[DrewEckhardt 0]

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Yea, because Psychophrenia and Cancer is so much better than Cancer alone.

Sure, although they'll have a much harder time smoking enough to cause problems than we did with our student smoking lounges and permission to take smoke breaks between classes.

[Southern_Man 0]

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Yea, because Psychophrenia and Cancer is so much better than Cancer alone.

Yeah, because nobody who has schizophrenia smokes cigarettes

"What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

[tkhayes 348]

and the smoking laws do SO MUCH to stop teens from smoking.....

legalize it all - spend the drug war budget on education and treatment. We would save billions and billions.....

[Marinus 0]

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Yea, because Psychophrenia and Cancer is so much better than Cancer alone

I pot is smoked in moderation it won't be to bad for your physical health and since the stuff isn't very addictive this will usually be the case. Nicotine OTOH is one of the most addictive substances known to man, so it won't usually be used moderately and will cause significant damage to the body. There is a link between schizophrenia and smoking pot, but it's unclear if smoking pot causes or triggers schizophrenia or that schizos smoke pot in an attempt to self-medicate. It's well established that drug abuse is often caused by an underlying mental issues.

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and the smoking laws do SO MUCH to stop teens from smoking.....

legalize it all - spend the drug war budget on education and treatment. We would save billions and billions.....

Agree. Drug wars are prohibition all over again. Legalize and tax is the solution.