Children are 2.5 times more likely to use drugs if parents use pot

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Children whose parents use marijuana are more than twice as likely to drink, smoke and use drugs than kids whose mothers and fathers don't partake

12% of adults and about 6% of high school students in the US use marijuana. Harvard University researchers surveyed 24,900 sets of parents and children about their substance use. They found that both teenagers and young adults who live at home are up to 2.

 

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Offspring adolescent are vulnerable to beers the most, however well parenting via good example is as twice as positive effective than schools or any other methods of education.

Not always, twice, but young minds are fragile, some of them.

I can see the logic there

ElPrincipitoTW Thousands of years of use of the plant without harm and out of the blue it becomes a 'bad thing' to future generations. Let's talk about opiates and pain killers then.

Kids imitate and are likely to turn out like their parents. What an absolute shocker.

No shit sherlock!

Damo_McGregor FACTS

🧢 our environment is a bigger treat

It all sounds a bit odd to me. Are you sure the people who come up with this shit ain't been drinking and smoking themselves? Actually you are more likely to drink and smoke if your mates do!! Nonesense!!

Drugs will destroy this country

'Children learn from their parents' shocker.

I’m going to go with it has less to with the drug and more to do with economics. And detached policies that negatively impact communities.

Total BS.

That is hardly a surprise.

No shit Sherlock

Now do opiates! justsayno

And parents who already smoke marijuana would probably know how to deal with a drug addicted kid

and ?

No shit sherlock

Maybe, but they'll be a thousand times more fun.

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