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| + | I agree with Dpbsmith: most people drink alcohol (some more than others) and most of them probably started in their teens, yet most people do not became heavy drug users as they get older, it's as simple as that. | ||
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| + | As for Marijuana, how many of today's businesspeople, docters, scientists, etc have smoked some while they were in college? | ||
| + | I don't know claim to know the exact percentage, but I think that proves a point. | ||
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YES
If you start with any of these, you are likely to move on to harder stuff.
- Please define "likely" and your evidence that it is true. I drink and have never used either marijuana or nicotine. Brewer13210 18:23, 18 April 2007 (EDT)
- I say, first, medicinal wine from a teaspoon, then beer from a bottle! An' the next thing ya know, your son is playin' for money in a pinch-back suit. And list'nin to some big out-a-town Jasper hearin' him tell about horse-race gamblin'. One fine night, they leave the pool hall, headin' for the dance at the Arm'ry! Libertine men and scarlet women, and ragtime, shameless music that'll grab your son and your daughter with the arms of a jungle animal instinct: mass-steria!
- —Meredith Willson, "Trouble," from The Music Man
- Dpbsmith 19:44, 18 April 2007 (EDT)
- —Meredith Willson, "Trouble," from The Music Man
NO
There is no evidence for this. That's all a bunch of moralistic hooey.
- Experts Discount Marijuana as Big Factor in Crime but Drive on It Will Be Pressed. Studies by the Committee on the Marijuana problem in the City of New York, appointed by Mayor La Guardia in January, 1939, have led the committee to the conclusion that ... "juvenile delinquency is not associated with the practice o smoking marijuana." Further findings are ... that its use "does not lead to morphine or heroin or cocain[sic] addiction" and that "the publicity concerning the catastropic effects of marijuana smoking in New York City is unfounded."
- —New York Times, January 12, 1945, p. 22
- Dpbsmith 19:44, 18 April 2007 (EDT)
- —New York Times, January 12, 1945, p. 22
NO
I agree with Dpbsmith: most people drink alcohol (some more than others) and most of them probably started in their teens, yet most people do not became heavy drug users as they get older, it's as simple as that.
As for Marijuana, how many of today's businesspeople, docters, scientists, etc have smoked some while they were in college? I don't know claim to know the exact percentage, but I think that proves a point.