Recently there was a study about risky youth behavior that was released on May 21st by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and it contains some very intriguing news, apparently more teenagers in the United States are now smoking marijuana more than they are cigarettes. The study shows that high school students polled are saying that more have admitted smoking marijuana within the last 30 days than those who have smoked tobacco, one thing the study shows is that the approach we've used to combat tobacco use works better than our policy towards marijuana.
So apparently those commercials that are informing us about how bad tobacco use is working more efficiently than outright banning it like we do marijuana, from 1993 to 2003 the number of teens smoking cigarettes is dropped from 30.5% down to 21.9% so this is quite a dramatic shift in teen behavior.
Plus there is another big contribution to the switch from tobacco to marijuana being people's primary source of smoking enjoyment , if you want to buy tobacco you have to show an ID card because convenience stores have very strict laws on selling tobacco products to minors. In many states they can be fined and even worse lose their license to sell tobacco products they are caught, so that also is a major contribution to this phenomenon.
As most marijuana smokers have noticed it is the young kids today who have the best weed connections because no one has to show an ID card to buy marijuana, it’s always the adults that have problems finding it but any high school kid can get you a bag if you ask them. So that there another reason why marijuana needs to be legalized in the state of Florida, we need to do it for the children as well as for the veterans of this great state.
So let's hope we can continue to make more steps forward and be ready for the 2016 election year, we almost did it last year it was really heartbreaking to come so close and miss it. The best scenario would be to do like Washington state where as soon as you walk into any recreational marijuana store you are carded at the door, the tax levels are at a reasonable rate and you can get a strains of marijuana with 17 percent THC and more for 10 dollars a gram. Which I believe is pretty much the perfect price for primo weed, there is no reason why we can't bring this to the Sunshine State in 2016.
Kids of course will still get access to marijuana but they'll have to jump through more hoops to get it just like they do with tobacco, plus these days kids are a lot more aware of the dangers of tobacco because they are warned with the ads that show them the consequences. When they show tobacco ads the dangers just pale in comparison to the anti-marijuana ads, the biggest danger of marijuana is making stupid mistakes like not going to class. The truth about marijuana has been suppressed for a long time now and it is time that people are finally realizing the truth, and we must continue to struggle forward to get it more into the public consciousness.
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