Narconon International Rushes New Marijuana Education Tool to Parents at a Critical Time
(firmenpresse) - LOS ANGELES, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 04/08/13 -- In one state after another, marijuana is being either legalized or approved for medical use. The newest Monitoring the Future survey shows that marijuana abuse among the young remains high. Why? When the public perceived that marijuana smoking was risky, fewer young people experimented with it. Now that there is more approval of marijuana use, few people remember the dangers. What's going on?
Some facts need to be made clear. So Narconon has rushed a new educational tool into production to help parents protect their children: 10 Things Parents May Not Know about Marijuana.
Clark Carr, president of Narconon International, explained why this new booklet is urgently needed. "Many parents are losing their concern that their children are smoking some pot because they themselves smoked it when they were young," he said. "But marijuana is more dangerous than ever now. Parents need to wake up and take action."
"Today's marijuana is not the same as the drug these parents smoked. It is often ten times as potent and responsible for sending more than 40,000 young people to the emergency room in 2010 with panic attacks, paranoia, delusions, vomiting or excruciating stomach pain," Carr said, citing a report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Carr noted that when marijuana was first promoted as a medical remedy, it was only intended for the critically ill who have no other solution. Now, a metropolitan area like Los Angeles has nearly 500 dispensaries.
"," added Carr. "We have collected these into one short, powerful booklet."
The downloadable booklet includes information such as:
On average, one in six youth will become addicted to pot when abuse starts at a young age.
Marijuana abuse lowers the ability to learn.
Residual toxins from marijuana can stay in the body for years.
Using this simple booklet as a starting point, parents can have around-the-dinner-table conversations with their children, taking up just one point at a time, letting children ask questions. It is helpful to ask a child what he or she now thinks about the drug at the end of each conversation.
"Just telling a child not to use drugs or trying to scare them away has long proven not to work," Carr said. "Ever since the first Narconon drug education class in 1968, we have found that giving children plenty of information to think with does help reduce use. Our has proven that providing information to young people is effective in reducing substance abuse. Kids have to make their own minds, don't they? We encourage every parent to download this booklet and use it."
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