How is it a sample size of one? If I watch 100 people and report their results isn't that a sample size of 100?

 

It was not intended to be proof of anything other than it's more than many think.

 

You asked ONE person the question.

I am with Clyde. As a college student, I can honestly say a huge percentage of kids smoke pot and have tried both. The senior class before me had a valedictorian that was one of the biggest pot heads I know to date. Also, a lot of kids that go to parties do not necessarily consider themselves smokers (cigarettes) but they do however smoke (cigs) when they drink and that also takes up a huge percentage of people.

 

I think weed is something that if you do it, you do it in moderation and keep it rare. If you do that, it is no where near being as dangerous as cigarettes.

Didn't know a lot of people that smoked weed in high school or college, but I've seen countless number of teenagers that have come into the ER suicidal, phsycotic and depressed that tested positive for weed.

 

Do you see more heart and emphysema patients in the ER or more suicidal teens?

You asked ONE person the question.

 

I didn't ask him to suppose. I asked him to tally a large group.

 

Again, I am not holding it up as evidence for a presentation at Harvard Med. I am not trying to get published. I am saying that I bet it's more than many realize.

Do you see more heart and emphysema patients in the ER or more suicidal teens?

 

 

I would probably rank it

 

Drug seekers

 

heart patients

 

pulmonary patients

 

suicidal/depressed teens

You asked ONE person the question.

 

So one scientist reports on 100 mice she is studying. Sample size is still one?

I didn't ask him to suppose. I asked him to tally a large group.

 

Again, I am not holding it up as evidence for a presentation at Harvard Med. I am not trying to get published. I am saying that I bet it's more than many realize.

 

So one scientist reports on 100 mice she is studying. Sample size is still one?

 

 

Clyde, I have every faith in your intelligence.

 

Asking one person to come up with a percentage of how many people they know that has tried weed or smoked cigarettes does not make for a very good sample group. ONE person is making a non-scientific determination. A scientist testing something on 100 separate lab rats and reporting the results makes for more scientific results than asking ONE person a question. What if the one person you asked is a pothead or smoker himself? He's more likely to hang out with people that partake in similar activities. The results would be equally skewed if your ONE person sampled does/has tried neither and hangs with people that haven't. You need a larger sample group.

You have a college-aged child. He/she will most likely "experiment" when they go to college.

 

As a parent would you be more concerned if you found out they were smoking cigarettes or if they were smoking weed?

 

I would be concerned if she did either and I don't believe she has smoked either! She hates being around smokers of any kind, as the smoke bothers her.

 

Honestly, I have never tried either one and I was a child of the sixties, where it was common for a lot of kids to do both. I just never saw or understood the reason for trying it and I also didn't have the money or the time to smoke them.

Pick your poision.

 

 

Marijuana is addictive with more teens in treatment with a primary diagnosis of marijuana dependence than for all other illicit drugs combined.⁴⁷ Using marijuana can also lead to disturbed perceptions and thoughts, and marijuana use can worsen psychotic symptoms in people who have schizophrenia.⁴⁸

Additionally, there are higher rates of depression, anxiety, and suicidal thinking among people who use marijuana when compared to people who don't use.⁴⁹ Teens who started using marijuana before age 15 are more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression in early adulthood.⁵⁰ A new study shows that smoking marijuana is associated with a 40% increase risk of psychosis

 

http://www.abovetheinfluence.com/facts/drugsmarijuana/

 

This is ridiculous, patently false propaganda. No doctor worth his credentials would try to tell anyone marijuana is addictive, let alone the rest of that stuff.

Clyde, I have every faith in your intelligence.

 

Asking one person to come up with a percentage of how many people they know that has tried weed or smoked cigarettes does not make for a very good sample group. ONE person is making a non-scientific determination. A scientist testing something on 100 separate lab rats and reporting the results makes for more scientific results than asking ONE person a question. What if the one person you asked is a pothead or smoker himself? He's more likely to hang out with people that partake in similar activities. The results would be equally skewed if your ONE person sampled does/has tried neither and hangs with people that haven't. You need a larger sample group.

 

Fair enough.

 

Your guess as to the percentage of UK or UL students that have tried weed or cigarettes AT LEAST ONCE?

This is ridiculous, patently false propaganda. No doctor worth his credentials would try to tell anyone marijuana is addictive, let alone the rest of that stuff.

 

 

You sound just like a former pot head co-worker. I guess you're going to tell me you can quit anytime you want huh Jim? :lol::lol:

Fair enough.

 

Your guess as to the percentage of UK or UL students that have tried weed or cigarettes AT LEAST ONCE?

 

:lol: Why UK or UofL students?

 

I'd say that more than 50% of American college students have tried at least one of the two. That's a fairly random and totally unscientific guess.

:lol: Why UK or UofL students?

 

I'd say that more than 50% of American college students have tried at least one of the two. That's a fairly random and totally unscientific guess.

 

I picked those two so that it would have a mix of people. That way someone can't say zero because they are using Asbury or KCC as their basis.

 

I don't think it requires an article from Scientific Journal to prove what many of us have witnessed.

You sound just like a former pot head co-worker. I guess you're going to tell me you can quit anytime you want huh Jim? :lol::lol:

 

I had a lot more success putting it down than the multiple times I've quit smoking cigarettes and restarted. Fortunately I've been able to forego them for good.

 

Still, what you posted is almost as ridiculous as "Reefer Madness" is. Bottom line is marijuana has been stigmatized because of who uses it and not because of what it does, whether that be Mexican immigrants initially, black musicians later on, then hippies in the 60s and beyond. All were outliers from the mainstream, therefore it's easy to demonize them.

I had a lot more success putting it down than the multiple times I've quit smoking cigarettes and restarted. Fortunately I've been able to forego them for good.

 

Still, what you posted is almost as ridiculous as "Reefer Madness" is. Bottom line is marijuana has been stigmatized because of who uses it and not because of what it does, whether that be Mexican immigrants initially, black musicians later on, then hippies in the 60s and beyond. All were outliers from the mainstream, therefore it's easy to demonize them.

 

Many would be shocked at how many "professionals" still occasionally smoke weed.