Research Journal 10/12

http://checkyourself.com/ShowFeaturedArticle.aspx?id=67c60712-96bb-4c47-9fca-ea068297117c
What is this bullshit that they are telling children nowadays? I know, it comes up again and again, but every time I read a website like this it just pisses me off. I mean these are resources intended for people my age, supported by our parents. That means if everyone is disregarding personal experience and scientific fact entirely by going to websites like these and following them like they're the gospel truth, no wonder people don't understand how helpful marijuana is. The anti-pot websites use just as much propaganda as the pro-pot websites. They reword and rework things to match up with what they're trying to say: For instance, the statistic they show about how 17% of teenage crash victims were under the influence of marijuana doesn't show this number in relation to something else, like amount of crash victims texting, or driving drunk and it doesn't account for the fact that many teenagers who use drink use marijuana while doing so. In other words, you may have pot in your system, but you crashed your car cause you were drunk, not stoned. Another one is the argument that marijuana contains more carcinogens than cigarettes. Give me a break. Anyone who has done minimal study in this field could figure out that one's pure bull. Think about it:
Carcinogens are placed into cigarettes in high amounts by the people who have created the recipe for that particular cigarette. The carcinogenic chemicals were created by scientists and put in those cigarettes, added to that tobacco, on purpose.
Now, why would more carcinogens be found in a plant than in treated cigarettes? I will concurr that marijuana and cigarettes have the same amount of tar in them BUT A) tar doesn't cause cancer and B) that's due to the nature of the plant. The nature of the plant is not to have more carcinogenic material. It's just nonsense to think it would, and telling our children they may develop lung cancer as a result of marijuana use is not only propaganda, but almost down right cruel.
Stupidity and ignorance are my mortal enemy and I shall vanquish both by this time in May!