Educate Your Kids About Marijuana
March 21, 2010
I was never educated as a child about Marijuana. Then one day when I was about 10 years old, my friends older brother approached us with a pipe and lighter, asking if we wanted to smoke some “pot.” I watched my friend take the first hit, how he held it in and blew it out, so by the time it came to me, I knew what I was doing. The problem was, I didn’t know what I was doing and immediately thought how messed up it was that my friends could point and laugh at someone who’s dying. After a couple minutes I found myself laughing with them. Then it became just another fun thing to do with my friends. It was illegal, which meant it must be bad, and being bad was cool, like drinking booze was before I turned 21. It took me a decade after that experience to even start learning more about why Marijuana was so bad, why it was illegal, why people were being put in jail for it, and what the real effects were on my body. I quickly came to realize that the people determining what was good and bad for me were the REAL problem.
Get to the point.
Parents need to talk to their kids about Marijuana. We all need to continue to educate ourselves about the truth of this plant, if all we know is what we’ve heard from the past, the media, our family and friends. We need to try Marijuana at least once in our lives to truly understand it’s effects, so we know that is no where near as dangerous as Alcohol. Your kids will encounter Marijuana at some point in there life, most likely in the public schools, there’s no way around it unless you home school and not let them have a social life, which is even more damaging. Kids are more likely to get hooked on something they are told they can’t do, rather than something they can do, no matter what it is.
Ricardo Cortés aims to educate children about the complexities of pot in a thoughtful, fact-oriented manner.
“Marijuana is around kids! Some children are trying their first “hit” of marijuana at ten and eleven years old, and awareness of the plant begins even earlier for many (whether through its heavy presence in pop culture or by simply opening their parent’s door during “bedtime”). We think there is a way to safely educate children about drugs by satisfying their curiosity but without piquing their curiosity to try them. It’s Just a Plant explicitly addresses the potential harm of drug abuse and insists that marijuana is something not to be experimented with by children. As with books that teach children about sex, It’s Just a Plant encourages parents to explore the topic and their children’s questions about it, all the while reminding them that trying “pot” is an experience for responsible adults. The book is not about people who use marijuana or people who abstain (although it contains both); it is about a plant that most children will encounter in their lives. Before they investigate on their own, shouldn’t they be prepared with honest and thorough information? We can deter early use and abuse of drugs by opening channels of communication between children and their parents.”
Stop feeding your kids the real drugs!
For decades, scores of doctors, government officials, journalists, and others have extolled the benefits of psychiatric medicines for children.
GENERATION RX presents “the rest of the story” and unveils how this era of unprecedented change in Western culture really occurred – and what price has been paid by our society. International award-winning filmmaker Kevin P. Miller (Let Truth Be The Bias, The Promised Land) “delivers a jaw-dropping emotional ride,” and “weaves a terrifying tale of criminal conspiracy, the mass abandonment of medical ethics, and the routine betrayal of an entire generation.” By employing the expertise of internationally respected professionals from the fields of medicine, ethics, journalism, and academia, GENERATION RX investigates collusion between drug companies and their regulatory watchdogs at the FDA and focuses on the powerful stories of real families who followed the advice of their doctors – and faced devastating consequences for doing so.
GENERATION RX is a film about families who confronted horror and found nowhere to turn for help – and how scores of children have been caught in the vortex of mind-bending drugs at the earliest stages of their growth and development. This powerful documentary also questions whether we have forced millions of children onto pharmaceutical drugs for commercial rather than scientific reasons. Ultimately, Generation RX may help parents decide whether the perceived benefits of these medications outweigh the serious risks to children.
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