As a high school teacher for more than 30 years, mostly spent as a health teacher, I have some insight as to how the teen brain works when it comes to taking risks. I would like to explain why I strongly believe that passing Question 3, the medical marijuana law, would lead to more teen marijuana use.
The onset of risky behavior is usually accompanied by some form of justification. It is hard for kids to be self-destructive without it. “I may try drugs,” one might say, “but I’ll never do as many as she does.”
Comments
The true gateway drugs are alchohol (specifically beer) and tobacco, so why are those legal and not cannabis? Because cannabis users tend to think and make connections that authority figures would rather have hidden. Beer kills braincells and makes people act (and become) stupid. Cannabis opens one's mind.