Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...realm of emotional development that marijuana does its damage. In any case, it seems there has been a mistake. Pot is not the drug of youth but rather of old age, the threshold of death--a little buzz before Kevorkian. It is a dulling drug, certainly useful as a palliative for the elderly. The young don't need to have their pain dulled. They need to learn from it. Perhaps baby-boomer parents, as they grow old, should reserve the world's marijuana supply for themselves and for what will no doubt be the gaudy and self-important theatrics...
...live in a world where the depth of a breath is the difference between the President and the guy who asks, "You want fries with that?" this confession makes me nervous. Mom, Dad, you loved me, you paid attention to me, and you told me not to smoke marijuana--but I did anyway. I wasn't experimenting. I was taking deep breaths and inhaling...
...despite what politicians say, marijuana was not my gateway to heroin and a crack pipe. I have not used other drugs, and I don't plan to. Aside from the occasional roll through a stop sign, I am a law-abiding citizen. As I write these words, I have this sense of shame that makes me hope that my first-grade teacher and my best friend's parents don't read this issue of TIME. They still think I'm a good kid. Fortunately, my mother didn't know about my behavior until I had more or less turned...
...California voter, I cast a ballot to legalize marijuana for medical use. So perhaps by the time I'm ready for Senate confirmation, the nonsense about who did and who didn't will have ended...
With the number of teenagers using marijuana on the rise, we asked some well-known experts and parents to answer the question, "What do you tell children about smoking marijuana...