Pubdate: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 Source: News Journal, The (Wilmington, DE) Copyright: 2012 The News Journal Contact: http://drugsense.org/url/1c6Xgdq3 Website: http://www.delawareonline.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/822 Author: Bobby Taylor YOUNG PEOPLE NEED TO GET HIGH FROM LIFE Our children are learning how to smoke marijuana to get a false sense of gratification or high without exerting the necessary human effort to obtain individual achievements and personal excellence. That's why I believe school dropout rates, juvenile delinquencies, drug killings and gangs can almost always be linked to recreational use of drugs like marijuana. True human gratification or highs are obtained from personal achievements and individual excellence such as getting good grades in school, receiving school honors and recognitions, graduating from schools and colleges, obtaining a good job and receiving job promotions, purchasing your first car and first home, creating great inventions that benefits society, starting your own business, getting married and having your first child. During a time when they should be using their young minds to learn and become great thinkers, inventors and future leaders in our society, instead they are failing tests, skipping class and dropping out of school because they are "tripping," "spaced out" and "detached" from the normal society by smoking marijuana and using other designer drugs to obtain a false sense of personal gratification. Bobby Taylor Wilmington - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom