Marijuana rates high among NZ teens

hometoad · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:06 pm

A Wellington drug educator says from its clients, the average starting age for smoking marijuana is 12.4-years-old

1 July 2008
A drug education group says marijuana is the drug of choice for pre teens.

The head of WellTrust Murray Trenberth is not surprised to hear five nine-year-olds have been suspended from a Rotorua primary school for smoking cannabis.

He says New Zealand kids smoke more marijuana than children in any other country.

"Over three years we've got about 2,000 clients and from them, the average starting age is 12.4 . . . so if the average is 12.4 there's a huge number smoking much younger."

Murray Trenberth says 70 percent of New Zealand kids have tried marijuana by the time they are 20, but most stop. It becomes a problem for 10 to 15 percent.
http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/article.aspx?id=87080&fm=psp,tst

I'm a bit of a hurry to head off to work so I'll add some thoughts in here later. http://www.norml.org.nz/postp61916.html#61916

Tony · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 3:36 pm

Wonder who has applications into GO's for funding ????
Trust "welltrust" sure can...

I love the way the so called drug education and rehab industries massage figures and create false fears about cannabis as theyl stick their noses in the Govt trough .. Cannabis is a wonderful cash cow ,

tony

hometoad · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:00 pm

when I quickly read over this article the first thing that sprung to mind was that it again highlights the folly of prohibition.

I also had and interesting thought that would have connected this thread withs steveohs thread but what with work I've completely forgotten what it was

paula · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:58 am

Never mind, it will come to you again

My first thought, after the obvious touting for business, was that like judges and coroners who periodically spout off, they are at the pointy end of prohibition and thus only see the obvious suspects, the tiny tip of the iceberg of pot users.

Tony · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:10 am

Funny how the views on kids smoking cannabis differ from politician to politician..

Here a Australian labour Party MP and ex Minister of the crown and publicly outspoken against cannabis but secretly seemed to promote it..

Its low life like this that gives cannabis a bum rap.

He has just been convicted ..

tony

FORMER NSW Labor frontbencher Milton Orkopoulos regularly used a Newcastle electorate office to exchange drugs and cash for sex with a 15-year-old boy, and introduced him to fellow MPs as his step- son, a court has been told.

Orkopoulos, 50, is standing trial at Newcastle District Court on 34 child sex and drugs charges dating back to 1995.

The former minister for Aboriginal affairs is accused of plying three boys, aged 15 and 16, with drugs in exchange for sex between 1995 and 2006.

The alleged offences include the indecent assault of a boy at the 2004 ALP National Conference.

Orkopoulos has admitted smoking cannabis with a schoolboy in NSW Parliament, as well as possessing a pornographic short story about sex between two minors and an adult man.

The_Don · Heavy User Joined: Mar 21, 2008 Posts: 157

ive never tried marijuana in my life and i probably will never try it.Im just gonna grow and sell it.

paula · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:20 pm

-spirc- · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:37 pm

the Don you make no sense i remember reading a comment from you in a previous forum saying "does any one know where i can buy some marijuana buds or marijuana seeds" (which i thort sounded pretty dodgy) why wuld you want bud if you dont smoke it and also if you dont smoke it and all you do is sell why are you on the norml website ? incase you forgot norml is trying to legalize it if that happened you wuldnt b able to make any cash
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"Marijuana prohibition has caused far more harm to far more people than Marijuana ever could"

piha · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:48 pm

...phew baked...july july july and then september...more hot and important issues

as always trying to keep it real

paula · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:34 am

Good spotting spirc

rasputin · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:52 am

So how do people rate The_Don, have his postings become so nonsensical that they are not worthy of reply or do you judge the person to have credability.

fatty · Chronic Pothead Joined: Mar 04, 2006 Posts: 406

I would be very surprised if he's actually 18

The_Don · Heavy User Joined: Mar 21, 2008 Posts: 157

FascistAnderton · Chronic Pothead Joined: Jul 18, 2006 Posts: 498

it just goes to show you don't have to be a dope smoker or of legal age to be a dope

The_Don · Heavy User Joined: Mar 21, 2008 Posts: 157


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