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- From: prmader@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (MICHELLE MADER)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Potheads of the 70's Raising Kids
- Message-ID: <22JAN199314235643@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 19:23:00 GMT
- References: <1993Jan15.152217.2804@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> <elambert.727118683@qualcom> <C13s0H.EE0@austin.ibm.com> <1993Jan20.150555.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
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- In article <1993Jan20.150555.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>, civl097@csc.canterbury.ac.nz writes...
- >>> >> >Currently schools are teaching that ALL drug use is bad and that alcohol
- >>> >> >is a drug hence social drinking parents do the dance. How do we deal
- >>> >> >with the fact that in many cases recreational use of some drugs isnt all
- >>> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >>> >> >that bad either?
- >
- >It could be beneficial in fact. See this study from the "National Bureau of
- >Economic Research.
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- >From the "New Internationalist" December 1992
- >
- > Drug Users defy Stereotype
- >
- >The presumption is this: drugs lead to addiction.Addiction leads to
- >desperation.Desperation leads to crime.People who use drugs are doomed to
- >failure.These are the messages behind the official anti-drugs campaigns.
- >Yet there is growing evidence that such campaigns don't work because they are
- >not true.
- >Most startling is the relationship between drugs and wages. Young cocaine
- >and marijuana users actually earn higher salaries than non-users, according to
- >a long-term study conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research in
- >New York. The drug-use habits of 5000 young adults were compared across the
- >US. The survey was first done in 1984 and repeated in 1989 to the same group
- >of people, with an average age of 24 and then 27. It shows drug users do not
- >drop out of the workforce quicker than drug-free employees. In fact they are
- >often the most inquisitive and talented people at the workplace.
- > (from the Pacific News Service,August 1992
- >
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- >Brandon Hutchison,University of Canterbury,Christchurch
- > New Zealand
-
-
- This sounds like the most incredible bull to me. First of all, most
- drug use is illegal and you are going to have a hard time finding
- people who will tell you the truth about theirs, especially at work.
- How many unemployed people were included in this study?
-
- I am acquainted with many people in their 30's & 40's who use pot.
- They have little or no drive and initiative. When I saw the recent
- TV commercial where two grown men are smoking (pot) at home, mom comes
- home and asks if they've looked for a job, and they state as they're
- frantically fanning smoke out the window, "I've been smoking for
- years and nothings ever happened to me!" I could have sworn they'd
- interviewed some of the people I know.
-