Teens and Marijuana: Why Parents Can’t Look the Other Way
In last month’s holiday rush, you may have missed the bad news on 2009 trends in American teenage drug use. According to the University of Michigan’s annual Monitoring the Future Survey, marijuana use by American adolescents, especially eighth and tenth graders, is trending upward for the third year in a row, reversing a decline tracked since 1992. Two other even more worrisome trends were reported in the survey. The age of first time marijuana users is dropping, and fewer teenagers believe there are health risks associated with their use of marijuana. That these trends are present when so much existing scientific research points to the complicity of marijuana in triggering first episodes of psychosis in teenagers is terrifying. Or it should be. Read more…
Watch a TV Ad Warning Children About Alcohol — an excellent clip with a very powerful message!
Alcohol. It’s No Joke. This site has created and hosts some very powerful, short video clips, enforcing the message of how important it is to talk to our young people, long before they’re faced with the decision to drink or not.
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