Why do kids(under 18) believe smoking weed is not dangerous?

Question

Given the millions of cases of deaths, drug overdose, self inflicted harm, poisonings, imprisonments, and accidents as a result of its useage.. why do kids say stuff like its just a plant it doesn't harm me..

even cancer patients know the risks of using it!..so why don't they?

Answer 1

TBH  pot was made illegal to get the illegals to go back to mexico .me personally i dont like it . now on the other hand i know alot of people who do .people dont smoke pot like they smoke cigarettes ..they chain smoke them. Pot makes one passive , not want to fight , i dont see how it could be used in posonings , inflicted harm , unless of course it was laced with another drug .

Answer 2

You have been influenced by a fanatical bandwagon...please look a little deeper for your info.

Cannibis is a plant...period.  Yes, Mother Nature has her dark sides to those ignorant of her ways, but there are plants you can purchase freely from nurseries & florists that are far more dangerous than this one.

A.  You cannot 'overdose'...when you've had 'too much', you simply fall asleep, it's not like you need rushed to ER.

B.  There are no deaths related to marijuana smoking alone...more people die stepping off curbs at the wrong time.

C.  When compared to other means of 'taking the edge off', like alcohol, prescription drugs, etc...it is the mildest and most natural available...also not physically addictive.

D.  Although it can provide a higher level of tolerance for those with dis-eases, no Naturopath, or Herbologist would normally  recommend Cannibis medicinally, except possibly in terminal cases...it contains properties that weaken the immune defense sensors, it also stifles motivation in many cases...plus the fact that there are many more varieties of plant material more suitable to healing, though fewer that are as mild to use for quelling symptoms.  Modern Medicine made it an actual 'law' that only chemicals can cure disease...Sooo not true!!!

It IS a plant...the only plant on this Earth that is persecuted, by the way, because of ignorance, and lack of governing control for profits--they make more money by it being illegal.  And it is unfortunate that children need to 'take edges off', to begin with...that reflects lack of responsibility on the generation(s) before them.

Trust me, when I tell you...It's not the most horrible of things kids could be doing these days!!!

Good Journey!!!

Answer 3

teenagers have this little theory. they believe they are invincible and that they know everything.

Answer 4

There is no evidence to support the fact that marijuana is dangerous! Actually it's been suggested that it helps people with diseases (no pot head has Alzheimers) and has no cancer causing agents like cigarettes do.

Also...it isnt even physically addicting!

Answer 5

Because they want to fit in with society or its just how they were raised.

Answer 6

Because they have never smoked weed before, therefore they don't know if it will really harm them or not.

Answer 7

A majority are well aware of the possible dangers involved in using cannabis, but believe that they will not be the ones badly affected & are obviously willing to take the risk in order to be in a state of euphoria & escape reality.

Answer 8

Good question. I think it makes the unpopular kids feel cool.

I grew up in Oakland. I knew a lot of high school kids that smoked pot. It is true, what they say that it is a "gateway" to harder drugs. That is not just propaganda. Also most of the pot smokers didn't graduate high school.

Many of the kids I knew in high school, had older siblings that graduated into harder drugs.  I still keep in touch, and visit from time to time (I moved to Phoenix).

Now that many of them are 40 and 50 they paid the price, of their health (the ones that did harder drugs that is). Many have liver, and kidney problems. I know of several that have ED.

It is a small step from pot to crystal methane. You ever see a person that is 30, but looks 50? Yup, that is a crystal methane addict.

Answer 9

1) they don't trust adults - they trust their friends.

2) there isn't much research out there, if they knew how to do proper research

3) a lot of kids seem to really believe that natural things won't hurt you.   of course, arsenic is very natural.

Answer 10

because it's not really the weed, its the harder stuff that causes a lot of the things you hear

Answer 11

I am not sure.  I don't know that pot is dangerous in and of itself.  I will tell you this;  I knew a lot of people in high school that smoked pot.  I can tell you that very few of the ones that did so have decent jobs today.  Most of them are hardly functional 20 years later.

Answer 12

I've never tried drugs before. I've ALWAYS thought they were stupid and dangerous. I'm 19 in November.

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Answer 13

WOW, some people dont know sh*t. the only thing you might get from smoking weed is cancer. ive been smoking for 4 years straight and i dont have cancer never overdosed. drive high all the time, never killed anyone.

Answer 14

... Because they see images of people smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol all around them and know that the whole debate is therefore irrational and hypocritical - why ban some drugs and not others?  

The health risks of both tobacco and alcohol are far higher and I've never once heard of a violent incident where cannabis was involved which didn't also include... alcohol!  The latest trend is to focus on strong grades of skunk - but they are never compared to the dangers of drinking whisky or vodka, don't you wonder why?

Most people (not just under 18's which twists the debate) also know that these legal drugs (tobacco and alcohol) are far more harmful and that prohibition is therefore senseless - you get a far lower transition rate from soft to hard drugs in Amsterdam than you do in London, which means the 'gateway' drug hypothesis is a myth and prohibition itself links soft and hard drugs in a way which is totally counter-productive!

Cannabis is, in fact, not physically addictive, whereas cigarettes and alcohol are more addictive than heroin.  Most of the problems of hard drug use directly stem from prohibition - a non-regulated product leading to quality fluctuation and overdoses, illegal supply directly promoting violent organised crime, and high prices and unsteady supply leading to desperation on behalf of hard drug users - boosting low level crime.  

In the UK the drugs advisor to Margaret Thatcher was in fact a doctor who was a heroin addict for decades(!), maintaining an otherwise normal and exceptionally high performing career.

People aren't stupid and they know this stuff - the hypocrisy of picking on some drugs and not others is doubly underlined if you do some research on the role of the US government in this, especially with reference to the ineffectiveness of prohibition (if it didn't work with alcohol why should it with other drugs?), the promotion of organised crime via prohibition, and the pervasive role of the CIA in drug distribution over the years (do you think they hang around street corners with the low level gang players? - and if they are involved at the highest levels then why aren't they closing the major operators?!).

Check out what's happening in Afghanistan we as speak... do you think opium production is down since we invaded, or at an all time 'high'!?

I suggest you ought to do some serious research instead of 're-hashing' US government propaganda, or accepting it without question... the history of that is interesting too, especially with reference to cannabis - total lies and absurd misinformation for decades, which is still ongoing... government trials that don't produce a political result in keeping with the official agenda simply being buried.

So, to put things into a rational perspective - "millions of cases of deaths, drug overdose, self inflicted harm, poisonings, imprisonments, and accidents" is in reality no deaths, no overdoses, relatively few cases of self inflicted harm (normally linked to other factors like social issues, psychological instability and alcohol abuse), no poisonings, ridiculous imprisonments and fewer accidents and fewer issues than alcohol by far.

... all of which has lead many European drug and crime agencies, top policemen and other professionals to suggest legalisation of all drugs (the Royal family even had a drug account at Harrods until 1917), to tax and control them and to put that revenue into re-education and rehabilitation, instead of pouring the cash down the plughole.

EDIT

Hey, please don't be churlish, you've had honest, detailed and truthful answers to your question... they, if anything, fully explain 'why' teens think most adults are hypocrites on this point.  Accept other peoples points of view as having reason and rationality... several of your points are factually inaccurate, but it's entirely up to you if you want to believe that.

Answer 15

Because they are naive and only believe what they want.  Even though, I've never heard of a drug overdose on weed, it is addictive and is also a gateway drug.