Thread:Comments:Report finds teen substance abuse is top public health problem in US/Implications for the War on Drugs

"A report issued Wednesday by the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University finds the top public health problem in the United States is teen drug abuse, including the use of alcohol, tobacco, prescription drugs, marijuana and other controlled substances."

Alcohol? Legal, but not to minors. Tobacco? Legal to adults. Prescription drugs? Readily obtained. Marijuana? Illegal (and by far the safest of the aforementioned). Alcohol and tobacco are both deadly drugs that corporations urge on US citizens. Prescription drugs are powerful concoctions that pharmaceutical companies urge on US citizens. Marijuana.... is not physiologically addictive and can be grown in your backyard. The researchers emphasize the tenderness of the teenage undeveloped brain; however, they fail to mention CAFFEINE, the most widely consumed psychoactive drug of all, and its ubiquitous presence in the American childhood. Or adulthood. Perhaps there is "cleaner" (more moral? sustainable? healthy) money in making marijuana a readily available recreational drug in all 50 states, while subsequently banning all advertising of these deadlier drugs. That's right! No tobacco commercials, no alcohol commercials; Sacred Liberty is rightfully limited if it endangers anothers'. The overwhelming evidence shows that a more nuanced understanding of drugs must accompany our legislation for and against them: "just say NO" is fucking bullshit.

The results of this study are confounded by the researcher's bias that all use is abuse. Smoke the ganj if you can.68.7.64.48 (talk) 18:25, 4 July 2011 (UTC)