Marijuanas early head start

Lisa, Jenny and Alex were all 11 years old and in the sixth grade. They were great athletes and super smart. They had everything going for them. They were all American girls that every parent loved, until they got suspended from school for the use and possession of marijuana. This scenario and many other similar cases have become a regular occurrence in schools across the United States. A recent government survey tells us that marijuana is the most frequently used illegal drug in the country; it also says that nearly 50% of teenagers have tried marijuana before they graduate from high school. Though this number seems very high, my personal experience proves that number is much higher for our small school.

Most of my friends and fellow classmates have smoked it before and many of them still smoke it on a regular basis. Many parents or adults in our community have no idea that this is happening so regularly. Even more importantly how this is happening. I feel uniquely qualified that my own personal interactions and experiences will allow me the knowledge to explain

*Excerpt from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services NIH Publication Number 98-4036

http://www.nida.nih.gov/MarijBroch/Mar

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Not only about marijuana, but tobacco, Alcohol and other drugs as well. Then, after a while some of their other friends want to try it also, when they do, they like it then, some more of their friends try it and this cycle goes on and on. Friends encourage friends, who encourage new friends. No matter what parents try to do to intervene it probably won’t work. Once a child tries this drug, they don’t stop.

The first question that arises in a conversation about children smoking marijuana is why? Why would they want to? Basically it is because they can, and they know they can. Not very many of them are doing this but there are a few. This may not work, but if these small children, with open minds ready to absorb all the information that they !

can, absorb the anti-drug information first, I bet many of them will always remember it. The topics need to be discussed more than just once and forgotten. Some adults accept marijuana socially, but they aren’t the ones who set all the examples for our youth. At this school many people start experimenting with marijuana in the sixth and seventh grade.

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