Study Says It’s Easier For Teens To Buy Marijuana Than Beer
By: Ty Brennan A recent study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University has some startling results about teens and drugs. In their study, they found that 40 percent of teens could get marijuana within a day; another quarter said they could get it within an hour. In another portion of the survey, teens between the ages of 12 and 17 say it’s easier to get marijuana than buy cigarettes, beer or prescription drugs. That number is up 37 percent from 2007. But, local law enforcement says these numbers don’t match up to what’s happening here in east Idaho. Kim Ellis, Pocatello Police department: “That’s something that we’re seeing here, but as far as what we’re seeing the statistics don’t bear out, that way, we’re seeing a lot more underage consumption citations than marijuana, possession of marijuana.” According the Pocatello Police Department, since the beginning of the year there were 58 alcohol violations with minors younger than 18, while there were only 12 marijuana violations. Law enforcement credit’s this to in school programs like “DARE” and having school resource officers available. For more information about the study: www.casacolumbia.org
American cops have very low I.Q.’s.
All that proves is that cops are better at busting loud DRUNK teens then they are at finding quiet HIGH teens. It is so much easier to hide that you are high because it is nothing like getting hammered. You can still keep your shit together on weed.
Funny that the cops jump from a college study’s statistics on what people can get to their own statistics on what people are busted for. They are completely different things… what idiocy, or perhaps spin but I don’t give them that much credit.
There has also never been a credible report that says D.A.R.E. is at all effective. Nice investigative reporting there.
lol is weed bad nope
lol pocatello police are idiots, just becuase you dont get caught doesnt mean kids arent doing it, smoke nugs errday
They arrest more kids for alcohol because drunk people draw more attention to themselves than high people.
no shit sherlock. tho its about the same for me to get cigs liquor or weed.
It is so stupid, well certainly you can buy stuff like that without question.
If I wanted to knit my self a sweater, then that would be fine because there is pleanty of old yarn laying about; no one cares about stuff that isn’t regulated.
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Unregulated means that anyone may be a participant.
May-be the title of the so-called news story needs to be amended, better.
Cheers.
from,
del-boy.
pocatello police are fucking stupid. dare doesnt work i learned drug shit to use later if i wanted to, “oh hey kids gimpson weed grows up johnny creek, if you eat it it youll get high, oh and btw this is what it looks like.” is what one of the cops told my class in 6th grade. idk if great is still around but that was a joke to.
are these people handicaped or just fukin retarded maybe they dont have so many marijuana citations because ___THEY___DONT___GET___CAUGHT___ DUM FUKIN PIGS
dare might work if it was honest. Talking to like 8th grade kids about drugs and telling them the flat truth would be effective. Scaring the fuck out of them with propaganda doesn’t help anything because after their first joint, it might as well all be lies because weed is so obviously harmless. Its mostly conditioned response, like dog training.. Grotesque image + emphasis on a drug = association of grotesque image with said drug.
I credit that stat to smoker paranoia vs drunken stupidity.
I also found this humorous, Law enforcement credit’s this to in school programs like “DARE”. The DARE program is also a known failure! My nephew when in grade school graduated top in his class from the program. Two years ago he was busted with cocaine.
prohibition is a failure