Marijuana causes permanent brain damage but I guess that's no longer a factor.
I smoked marijuana once. It made me want to rape and kill!
Stay in school and stay off drugs.
The Insane World of Vintage Anti-Marijuana PSAs
My generation got the lies in the 60s and 70s. I was told how marijuana would do all kinds of horrible things by the anti drug programs in school at the time.
Then I found out I was lied to. So I didn't believe anything I was told about recreational drugs. Which isn't a good thing because there's a huge difference between marijuana and cocaine and other very destructive drugs.
Telling kids lies about drugs is worse than not talking to them about drugs at all.
I didn't allow my child sit through the drug propaganda the schools pushed. I told my child about drugs myself and I told the truth.
I did tell my child that marijuana is not the same as those other drugs but I did tell her the truth, that marijuana can make you fat. Munchies. Smoke it too often and have the munchies and you will put on weight. I can tell you, a teenage child will listen to that. It worked with my nieces in the 90s and it worked on my child when she was a teenager.
I was like my parents. I took the time to teach my child to be responsible with drugs. Including alcohol. Which is a drug. I didn't allow my child to learn that on their own. I knew they were going to party so I didn't say no, kept it in my home so I could monitor it, the kids wouldn't get in any trouble with the police and no one drove away my home drunk or high. The girls slept upstairs, the boys slept in the basement.
It's what my wise parents did. It worked with my siblings and I. It worked with my children.