Snake Oil: If you have ever watched old westerns you have seen the Snake Oil Salesman, selling something that seems to be the cure for everything. The discusion about marijuana is moving into that category.
One of the things that seems to be confusing a lot of people, particularly teens, are the discussionas about marijuana being medicine, and medical marijuana. On the surface it sounds like marijuana is a cure for pretty much anything. The problem for kids is that when they hear that it is "medicine" that translates to "it can't hurt me".
Once you try something and like it, it becomes very easy to justify why it is ok.
Marijuana is an intoxicant, intoxicants alter brain function. Lets work on helping our kids think this through.
Following is a very good article from Stanford. Worth the read!
