Give me a break. Marijuana is no worse than alcohol and has many more benefits than is led to believe. Of course, we’d rather waste tax payer dollars to a tune of 812 million a year going after a natural herbal remedy that comes straight from the ground.

I’m sure teens suffering from depression have nothing else going on in their lives except pot to make them depressed. Also, if pot can lead to mental illness, why is it prescribed to people with MS?

I think if people took the blinders off their eyes that they would see a lot of people that didn’t expect to see using the drug. This means lawyers, business men, etc.

As with most thing, it only take sa few bad apples to spoil the bunch. I know here in my home town, we have oneof the highest murder rates in the city, but what do the police focus on? Pot users. Yeah, way to get the real thugs off the streets and continue to waste more tax payer dollars while our children are getting killed by random acts of violence.

One day the government will wake up.

This report is beyond flawed. Of course the White House is going to say this and that about marijuana, it’s run by the same people who grew up in the Reefer Madness times, funded by the alcohol companies. Try doing a study of teen depression and alcohol. You’ll get many more negative results.

“I’ve seen many, many kids’ lives negatively impacted and taken off track because of marijuana,” said Elizabeth Stanley-Salazar

What great evidence.
Once again, alcohol impacts teens lives, if not EVERYONE’s lives negatively (in recreational doses).

I’m so sick of having the government being everyone’s parents.

Try these studies on Marijuana:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312132,00.html <- Marijuana stops breast cancer from spreading

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle_blog/2007/aug/01/new_study_marijuana_does_not_cau <- Marijuana does not cause lung cancer, or psychosis.

http://io9.com/357818/4-out-of-5-doctors-recommend-marijuana-for-your-adhd-kid <- Marijuana is better than Ritalin at treating ADHD in KIDS.

Those studies are done by DOCTORS, NEURO-PHYSICIANS, AND PSYCHIATRISTS.
NOT WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS!

LOOKS LIKE THE ALCOHOL LOBBYING IS PAYING OFF!…………………………………………………….. “KEEP WEED EVIL”-ANHIESER BUSH/ CIRCA 1967

I hope all the “pot-heads” out there are aware of the latest research indicating that Autism is causes by mental illness in the parents genetic line!

What about teen drinking? Teens should not be using any drugs of any sort. This is why you have to be 21 years old to buy alcohol. Same rule should apply to Marijuana. In other words, legalize it!!!! Tax money from sales can be invested heavily in drug awareness and preventive counseling and programs for teens. Alcohol is way more destructive than Marijuana ever will be. Hell what about cigarettes?? They are still legal and are proven to cause all sorts of health concerns.

legalize it? the alcohol lobby won’t allow it! its so absurd that weed is listED as a “class a” drug? same as herion,coke,vicodine? WEED ISN’T LEGAL BECAUSE OF POLITICS….PERIOD! I DON’T SEE TEENS IN AMSTERDAM WHERES IT LEGAL DROPPING LIKE FLIES?

Marijuana is NOT bad. Maybe if some of out officials would smoke some instead of doing coke or meth our country would be in as bad of shape as it is now. Weed=Peace.

Pot and other drugs can also destory you whole life!

if only all the weed smokers would quit and drink alcohol instead,the world would be a better place i bet? HA!

Yes, it’s a huge government conspiracy, every research article ever written that is critical of weed is simply propaganda put out there by big brother to keep you from getting a dime bag and to help sell more Budweiser.

While on the other hand every pro weed article is from someone with an enlightened perspective.

Now go back to sucking on your bong, watching The Flinstones and eating peanut butter sandwiches and you might want to peek outside occasionally to see if the cops are watching your house, word on the street is your a pothead.

DOES ANYBODY HAVE THE STUDIES THAT PROVE THIS INFO. I RECENTLY SENT AN EMAIL TO GET THE INFO, BUT I HAVE NOT GOTTEN ANY INFO. i WAS ALSO NOT LISTED HOW MUCH THE RATE OF mental illness or suicidal thoughts. HAS THE SUICIDE RATE INCREASED SINCE THE 60′S. WITH THE LITTLE INFO GIVEN FROM THIS REPORT IT SHOULD HAVE, AND I HAVE NOT READ ANYTHING ABOUT THAT STATISTIC. SINCE MARIJUANA IS THE 3RD MOST USED DRUG IN THE WORLD, SHOULDNT THAT STAT HAVE RISEN STEADILY FROM YEAR TO YEAR. THIS ARTICLE ALSO CONTRIDICTS A STUDY DONE IN ENGLAND SAYING THAT MARIJUANA AND ANY TYPE OD MENTAL ILLNESS, http://www.lca-uk.org/lcaforum/viewtopic.php?t=10763&sid=f07d2b7012337361f9660f9d54547e0f

so ARE THEY RIGHT OR IS THIS STUDY RIGHT?

Overall, marijuana use among teens has decreased 25 percent since 2001, down to about 2.3 million kids who used pot at least once a month, the drug control office said.

WITH THE DECRIMINALIZATION OF THIS DRUG IN MORE AND MORE STATES, SINCE 1996 IS THAT THE REASON FOR THE DECREASE, IT WOULD FIT THE TIME FRAME.

MARIJUANA has never detroyed a life or family! Although people have died from alcohol withdraw. Now stop using the old “stepping stone to harder drugs”excuse for your herion addict family members weak mindedness! LEGALIZE MAJIJUANA NOW!

Alcohol causes more health and phycological damage than weed. When was the last time you saw an article about someone being killed by a HIGH driver?

This study is more of the same government fear mongering. Fact 1: you can’t become chemically addicted to nor overdose on THC. Fact 2: several compounds in the unmodified ‘pot’ plant have been shown to do very good things for your mind and body. Two years ago researchers proved that pot smoking actually made lung cancer apoptotic…(eat itself). Fact 3: the only reason pot was ever made illegal was to push the mexicans out of the country during the depression. Fact 4: the only reason hemp was made illegal was to keep black share croppers from winning huge rope contracts with the Navy during WWI & II.

The only thing this “study” proves is that depressed people are using a natural substance to feel better because all the synthetic crap drug companies are pushing doesn’t work. Come on now America; let’s start prosecuting the real drug lords…those that push pills on society for top profit without actually helping you.

Doubt me? Good! Then answer this question. Why, if natural THC is so bad for you do drug makers make a synthetic version to help people stave off the side effects of treatments prescribed for diseases like cancer and HIV? It seems to me that all we’ve done is made something natural, perfect and God given illegal just to hand it back for as much cash as possible.

Again, why have drugs become readily available for eveything yet no diseases have been cured since Polio!?

When was the last time you’ve ever heard of someone having a heart attack, loose stools, nose bleeds, rashes, joint swelling, feelings of mania, sleep walking etc…from pot?

This is nothing more than BS and fear mongering at a collegiate level!