Parents: Pot Culture Is Different Than Alcohol

Teens initially smoke cigarettes and use illegal drugs to fit in. Hanging with the “druggies” stands-in for team activities. They form a not-so-elite club that welcomes everyone, as long as everyone is smoking, snorting or drinking something!

Parents should know that the social culture for pot in high school differs from the
social culture for alcohol use. Pot use is accepted on a daily basis, and often
smoked between classes. At the end of the day, confirmed potheads cannot
concentrate on much, let alone chemistry or higher math, and a-motivational syndrome takes hold. On the other hand, alcohol use among teens, unlike pot, is usually relegated to Saturday night and it is rarely brought into school.

At first, the government targeted pot as a gateway drug. Experts believed that
recreational use of pot would eventually propel kids into using harder drugs. Today,
pot smokers are using it to such a degree that it is not a gateway drug to
something else; it can stand alone as a highly addictive drug. There is a
reason kids call it chronic.

The antidote to drugs is helping children develop a strong sense of self, faith in the
family's rules and mores, respect for their parents, and participation in outside
activities in which a young person can excel, feel good about, and enjoy.

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