In this blog I will be discussing an article that I've chosen from Room for Debate from New York Times. "Marijuana is far less toxic than alcohol or cocaine" is the article that I have picked to focus on. This article stood out to me as I was looking through the different genres of debates because I didn't think or know that this information was true and I wanted to read more. The article touches bases of how marijuana might and might not be better than the use of alcohol in growing adults. Many of the people discussed in this debate doesn't agree with this but some think this statement could be true.
Robert Gable is an emeritus professor of psychology at Claremont Graduate University.
He thinks no drug is good for teenagers but compared to alcohol, marijuana is a hundred times safer. He took the effective dose of after drugs and also took the effective dose of each drug and divided them. After doing this you will find the safety margin of the drug. The safety margin of alcohol is 10 versus marijuana which is 1000 , which is might higher (better). This means the it takes 1000 times the amount of mary j to overdose but only 10 times to overdose on alcohol. He agreed with the statement.
Jill cooper is the associate director of the safe transportation research and Education center at the university of California, Berkeley.
The use of marijuana in teens has increased over the pass years and the uses of alcohol has decreased. She thinks that people couldn't feel that teens are better off high of weed than being drunk. Driving under the influence of marijuana is as bad as driving under the influence of alcohol. People think that marijuana can make safer drivers because they drive slower but this can be proven wrong. Chemicals in marijuana effect aspects that are important in the driving process. Attentiveness, visual scanning, orientation ability and basic motor skills, and lastly the perception of time and speed. Marijuana is a drug that is second mostly found in drivers of crashes after alcohol. Jill Cooper disagree with the statement.
Deon price is a youth career transition instructor for the department of labor, is a motivational speaker and youth life-skills coach in Northern California.
"How could doing any drug be good news on any level?" Deon Price argued. He agreed that marijuana may be less reckless than alcohol and other drugs and that marijuana is looked at more lightly now due to the legalization efforts but marijuana is still a bad idea for youth turning into adults. Marijuana relaxes people making them unmotivated and this is the wrong time in life to be in slow motion. Even though marijuana can help people with medical conditions its can effect the nerves system and a persons memory.
Joseph D. McNamara retired police chief of San Jose, California, is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
The government can't win the drug war no matter how hard they fight , so is it really a war worth fighting? Teen will use marijuana weather it's illegal or legal but it being illegal gives kids criminal records that they don't need under their belts. No one has ever died from the use of marijuana but alcohol and cocaine is a different story. He doesn't seem like he completely agreed or disagreed until he stated that marijuana mellows people but alcohol and cocaine excites people to do violence. Then says that driving under the influence of any drug is a no but driving under the influence of marijuana is safer because it gives you the opposite speeding reckless effect as alcohol or cocaine.
I first I thought I was on the fence with this debate but as I read the different debate I agree with the statement but I'm disagree with the use of marijuana during your early youth years. I just feel like the long term effect that it can have on your memory isn't worth it and you need your memory the most during this time of life. This just makes it harder on yourself in your future. I'm not saying I'm completely against smoking weed because I'm not saying that at all. I think that marijuana is a lot better than any of the other drugs out on the market including alcohol but it does still have bad effects on your brain.
Robert Gable is an emeritus professor of psychology at Claremont Graduate University.
He thinks no drug is good for teenagers but compared to alcohol, marijuana is a hundred times safer. He took the effective dose of after drugs and also took the effective dose of each drug and divided them. After doing this you will find the safety margin of the drug. The safety margin of alcohol is 10 versus marijuana which is 1000 , which is might higher (better). This means the it takes 1000 times the amount of mary j to overdose but only 10 times to overdose on alcohol. He agreed with the statement.
Jill cooper is the associate director of the safe transportation research and Education center at the university of California, Berkeley.
The use of marijuana in teens has increased over the pass years and the uses of alcohol has decreased. She thinks that people couldn't feel that teens are better off high of weed than being drunk. Driving under the influence of marijuana is as bad as driving under the influence of alcohol. People think that marijuana can make safer drivers because they drive slower but this can be proven wrong. Chemicals in marijuana effect aspects that are important in the driving process. Attentiveness, visual scanning, orientation ability and basic motor skills, and lastly the perception of time and speed. Marijuana is a drug that is second mostly found in drivers of crashes after alcohol. Jill Cooper disagree with the statement.
Deon price is a youth career transition instructor for the department of labor, is a motivational speaker and youth life-skills coach in Northern California.
"How could doing any drug be good news on any level?" Deon Price argued. He agreed that marijuana may be less reckless than alcohol and other drugs and that marijuana is looked at more lightly now due to the legalization efforts but marijuana is still a bad idea for youth turning into adults. Marijuana relaxes people making them unmotivated and this is the wrong time in life to be in slow motion. Even though marijuana can help people with medical conditions its can effect the nerves system and a persons memory.
Joseph D. McNamara retired police chief of San Jose, California, is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
The government can't win the drug war no matter how hard they fight , so is it really a war worth fighting? Teen will use marijuana weather it's illegal or legal but it being illegal gives kids criminal records that they don't need under their belts. No one has ever died from the use of marijuana but alcohol and cocaine is a different story. He doesn't seem like he completely agreed or disagreed until he stated that marijuana mellows people but alcohol and cocaine excites people to do violence. Then says that driving under the influence of any drug is a no but driving under the influence of marijuana is safer because it gives you the opposite speeding reckless effect as alcohol or cocaine.
I first I thought I was on the fence with this debate but as I read the different debate I agree with the statement but I'm disagree with the use of marijuana during your early youth years. I just feel like the long term effect that it can have on your memory isn't worth it and you need your memory the most during this time of life. This just makes it harder on yourself in your future. I'm not saying I'm completely against smoking weed because I'm not saying that at all. I think that marijuana is a lot better than any of the other drugs out on the market including alcohol but it does still have bad effects on your brain.