"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
The Choices We Make: Teenage pot smokers are more likely to abuse other drugs later in life. A study published this week in JAMA follows the fates of marijuana smoking twins. Out of 3500 pairs of twins, the researchers found 311 pairs in which only one of the twins smoked pot before the age of 17. (They were all Australian.) They then looked at the incidence of other mood-altering substance use throughout the twins’ lifetime. The results show striking difference in the subsequent use and abuse of cocaine, alcohol and hallucinogens. Those who began smoking pot at an early age were far more likely to have problems with other drugs later in life than were their more law-abiding twins.
It’s neither nature nor nurture that determines who we are, but the choices we make. posted by Sydney on
1/22/2003 07:27:00 AM
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