More Teens Now Smoking Weed Than Cigarette

It's quite a sad state of affairs that teens in the usa will have the belief that smoking marijuana is better than smoking v2 cigs contact] when, in fact, neither is safe. A Denver Post article, "Teens' marijuana use increases; fewer see it as dangerous drug", by John Ingold, states "While teen tobacco smoking has decreased over the previous 10 Years, marijuana use can be as high as it's been since the early element of the decade." "Nationwide, 21.4 percent of 12th-graders, 16.7 percent of 10th-graders, and 8 percent of 8th-graders claimed having used marijuana before 1 month. Every one of those results was more than the quantity who reported smoking cigarettes in the past 30 days - 19.2 percent, 13.6 percent, and 7.1 percent, respectively."What might actually make teens feel smoking weed is safe, particularly simply because they got the message about tobacco and we've seen its' use within a 10 year decrease? Could it perhaps be that our capital city, Denver, voted to legalize marijuana; that more medical marijuana shops are open in Denver than Starbucks; that it was a narrowly beaten ballot measure in the last California election; or the hype surrounding the biggest Cannabis Convention in the US currently going on in Denver?We have undoubtedly done a disservice to your teenagers, since both tobacco and marijuana have many of the same ill effects. "The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) claims that pot smokers encounter respiratory disturbances similar to tobacco smokers, including coughs and lung infections. Also like tobacco, marijuana might boost the threat of heart attack because power to raise blood pressure and heart rate." "Marijuana contains 50 to 70 per cent more carcinogenic hydrocarbons than tobacco smoke..." Marijuana advocates can argue all they need that they don't smoke as much as cigarette smokers, but that's a pointless defense - neither is safe.Let us also address the present controversy in the Colorado Legislature regarding the legal limit of THC (the primary drug in marijuana) for running a motor vehicle, where the legal and medical areas express the results resemble alcohol. The experts tell us you will find emotional effects on the teen developing mind, including these short-term effects: learning and memory dilemmas, issue with problem solving, distorted perception, and loss of motor control. Undoubtedly marijuana use has a adverse influence on teen training, probably leading to fewer kids going on to school, fewer getting excellent jobs, and so on.I haven't any difficulty with medical marijuana use, to help relieve the pain and suffering of patients with medical needs. But we have only done a massive injustice to our childhood by all of the media and nonsense by well-intending adults (sic) to get weed on the election ballots, to open medical weed retailers for income, to market a conference, and who knows what else.It took ages and millions of dollars to turn the tide on tobacco use. It now seems we need to start down that way with pot due to the harm already done. One out of five of our senior high school seniors are regular (in past 1 month) customers. None folks need to be on the "highway" with one behind the wheel - and in the tough job market, these kiddies will soon be left behind producing unknown social issues for our towns in the a long time.