Oh Dear There's A Turn Up!

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45732911
We are always being told that Bob so so much better than Tom!

[jim360]

If you could repost this, but in English this time, I'd be most grateful.

[kvalidir]

As if any Tom, Dick or Harry could understand it! Well perhaps a Dick could :) x

[kvalidir]

Sorry Tora that was just a joke, no genuine offence meant x

[ToraToraTora]

the link is quite clear.

[fiction-factory]

My guess jim is Bob= flobalob, weeeed (flowerpot men), so WEED.
I'd need to think about Jim though for beer/booze

[fiction-factory]

Oops Tom- Tom Cruise, booze

[cassa333]

I could have told them that. I used to work in a hostel and the vast majority were smoking dope.

One in particular wasn’t called dopey Dan for nothing.

The longer they had been on it the dopier they were. Now it is always possible of course that they were all on the thick side of the brain scan but even so.

[Cloverjo]

Bob Hope - dope. Don't know where Tom comes from.

I'm worried about teenagers doing either.

[jim360]

No doubt the *link* is clear, but you're being anything but.

Seriously: have another go, and this time take the topic seriously. Then I'm sure that AB members will happily be serious in kind.

[Cloverjo]

I think cannabis has been talked and written about for some years as being bad for teenage brains. Apparently the stuff around now is much stronger than in the past.

[youngmafbog]

Get a life Jim you know very well whathanks TTT means.

Not really a surprise that ttt, a young growing mind is affected by chemicals dont need to be the surgeon general to work that one out !

[Old_Geezer]

Do folk with working memory, reasoning and behaviour control issues take up cannabis use early, or does early use of cannabis cause working memory, reasoning and behaviour control issues ? The issues remain afterwards, after all.

They need to start with a group of non-users, test them first, then split them into two groups, and give one lot regular placebos and the other cannabis, in a double blind experiment, and see what the results are.

[rowanwitch]

You wouldn't get that proposal past any ethics committee.

[10ClarionSt]

I've never touched the stuff - ever. And that from someone who went into, and out of, their teens in the Sixties. A lot of my mates were doing it, but I didn't want to know. Most of them are dead now. I'm, just, like, sayin'. Yer know?

[China Doll]

This isn't really news, there have been published articles about this for sometime and links to cannibas use having a direct effect on mental health including directly responsible for psychotic break downs.

I believe the crux of it is around the types of drugs being used so skunk more powerful than cannibas.

Personally I say legalise and control the lot, it'll probably be the middle class 30 - 50 year old who are the biggest consumers anyway. Either that or parents are just going to have to accompany their kids to their dealers to ensure they're getting quality gear.... It's the responsible parent thing to do.

[ToraToraTora]

they're smoking skunks now? wow! that's gonna pen!

[spathiphyllum]

explains why it smells so bad

[spathiphyllum]

"Although levels of cannabis use in the study were low compared with alcohol use, 28% of the teenagers still admitted to some kind of use.

This compared with 75% of the teenagers who said they drank alcohol at least occasionally."

So it seems although cannabis is more harmful for teenagers, teeneagers are actually drinking about 2.4X times more than they're taking cannabis. I think the social norm and accessibility to alcohol is part of it's issue. Comparing the two in my opinion is foolish, but cannabis is less dangerous to society as a whole compared to booze.

A cheeky joint won't kill your kid, them going out and getting paralytic potentially will, it also leaves them so vulnerable in the world to potential perverts or even to the environment like cold ditches or a hedge on their way home.