Re:Teen Marijuana Vaping Soars, Displacing Other Habits
by hoistbypetard on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @05:35PM
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> But because they believe it's risk free they aren't exactly telling teens not to use it.
Citation, please. My personal experience as a teenager two and a half decades ago and as someone responsible for the care of teens and pre-teens now is quite the opposite of this. The teens/kids I observe are being told very stridently not to use it, in the same terms and even by some of the same organizations (D.A.R.E.) that we were in the '90s.
While there might be a (strong, IMO) argument that teens are disregarding real, serious risks because they find out some of the bogeymen presented by D.A.R.E and similar are overblown and assume all of us are over-articulating risks, I don't think kids are being told any less to "just say no." As if that helped in the first place.
Re:Teen Marijuana Vaping Soars, Displacing Other Habits
by gewrtw45 on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @01:34PM
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It's very true on HN. Marijuana it's heavily promoted here.
Re:Teen Marijuana Vaping Soars, Displacing Other Habits
by LanceH on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @02:49PM
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Some promote the drug itself. Probably a lot more are behind the freedom to use what you want (and against the heavy criminalization). There are probably a fair number that would see the drug continue to be banned, but are just against the biased, fear-mongering, moral panic inducing "journalism" we see from once reputable establishments like the NYT.
And because of that they are very poorly motivated to stop its use among teens.
So this isn't going to get better, it'll get much worse.
Adults also believe marijuana use is perfectly fine, and risk free, which may or may not be true for adults, but is not true for teens.
But because they believe it's risk free they aren't exactly telling teens not to use it.
And keep in mind: those adults who really want to use marijuana are the "nosiest" online, which is where teens get all their info.