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To: Rambi who wrote (26193)	11/23/1998 9:02:00 PM
From: George S. Montgomery	Respond to of 108807

penni, until your entrance, I felt this evening was the most labored and pathetic one I have seen on Feelings for quite a while... Hubert has joined i and Sam in presenting extreme inequities as bases for their posts. The Christian/Jew Christians have battled the Christian/Non-Jew Christians. It has been a senseless, and insensitive melee. A cpla days ago, there was dignity and logic here. Now. it is like the loo in a dorm that has been slipped emetics. I, frequently, regret post that I throw up here. (Throw up?) Possibly, this will be one. But, Jesus(!), we had such rapture in sheer mental magnificance such a short time ago - and not this yuk...geo

To: Rambi who wrote (26193)	11/28/1998 7:37:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Well, yes, Penni, from what I have read, marijuana does stunt brain development. I read this a long time ago, and if someone with better knowledge wants to jump in, that would be just fine, since I have now poured a glass of gold tequila which I am drinking straight, so that I can catch up with you. But what I read was that there are actual differences in brain growth if children smoke marijuana, as opposed to young people who do not. I also read that it is disorienting, so that it is harder to form thoughts and opinions. Of course, that would be the same as for adults, and is not organic. There are some studies which show that marijuana use among teens leads to lower grades, but I could not find any with a web search. I do know that as an experiment, I compared my class notes and essays before I smoked marijuana in college, and after, and noted that my very handwriting changed, and that I became less well organized. I suspect that if I had never used recreational drugs, I might be really smart and successful. And I would have remembered the sixties! I think even more important in discussing teenagers and marijuana, is the relationship between "gateway" drugs--alcohol, tobacco and marijuana--and hard drug use. According to this discussion, children who use marijuana are EIGHTY-FIVE times more likely to use cocaine than children who do not. columbia.edu One of the tenets of Alcoholics Anonymous and its associated programs is that addiction freezes emotional development. I have also read independently, and experienced anecdotally with friends and family, that children who begin using marijuana as young teens stultify their emotional growth. To respond to the rest of your post about teenagers--now wait while I finish off the local yummy gummi bears which have been SOAKING in this tequila for a half hour--I fully realize that teenagers are doing what they need to do in breaking away and establishing independence. I just wish it didn't hurt so much sometimes! That modern phrase "empty nesters" hits my heart strings even when I read it in articles in the business press analyzing real estate trends of the moment, and I see my suddenly very hairy husband and me sitting forlornly and much wrinkled there, wishing silently for daughter bird to lay her own eggs, so that we can hover over them as we once did our own.