Report: Depressed teens, marijuana a dangerous mix
Teenagers who use marijuana put themselves at higher risks for serious mental health problems, including worsening depression, schizophrenia, anxiety and suicide, according to a new White House report.
The report said more teens use marijuana than all other illegal drugs combined.
Although the report from the Office of National Drug Control Policy notes that use of the drug among teenagers has dropped by 25 percent in the past seven years, it emphasizes that more teens use marijuana than all other illegal drugs combined.
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2 Comments:
1. Can you really trust a government based organization to give you unbiased information? That's like asking China to give us a list of all the benefits of democracy.
2. Okay, so depressed teens shouldn't smoke pot b/c it will make them more depressed? Fine. Well maybe if our society wasn't so F'd up they'd have other options than marijuana.
3. If statement two is true than tell me about the downfalls of marijuana users who are NOT depressed.
4. None of these reports say WHY cannabis increases depression and supposed risks of schizophrenia.
5. This is an age old battle of cause and effect. These reports issued by the White House send mixed messages. In the CNN press release video the first guy says marijuana creates depression while the second says depressed kids are more likely to smoke marijuana.
6. Marijuana opens your mind. The government doesn't like that at all. Ever wonder why alcohol and caffeine are legal? Alcohol closes your mind and caffeine is a potent tool to keep people working as fast as they can thus boosting the economy.
Don't fall into the trap, this societal conditioning on a large scale! If you can't see that, it's working on you.
What really sickens me is that they are not adressing the problem of teen depression, but their self-medication.
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