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    Culture Warriors take on marijuana usage among teenagers

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Stay with a son Bill O'Reilly and a coach George segment tonight the Centers for Disease Control report.

That 23%.

Of American high school students say they've smoked pot in the past thirty days while 18% said -- smoke cigarettes not a big number from marijuana.

-- even tell you all his quads -- legalization stuff the medical marijuana ruse that kind of thing.

Sending a message that there's nothing wrong with getting stoned even if you're twelve years old.

In medical two words Gretchen calls mentioning -- so you surprised by the 23%.

-- I was stunned but every young person that I've spoken with Phil is not surprised at all.

They think that marijuana is harmless and it's attributable to I think two things and one is that we card people -- young kids who want to buy cigarettes.

An -- too we as a society of making this.

He impression -- sent this image out there that it is dangerous it causes cancer we have fans -- tracheotomy you talk about tobacco tobacco -- so young kids think that grass is not as dangerous as tobacco.

And is that it is that the targets and -- That the the drugs and marijuana cigarette or just -- dangerous and three times greater when you when hell.

-- -- -- have a quarter of the of the student population and a teenage population country smoking marijuana at least in more a lot of people more than once a month.

-- -- -- -- at a toxic -- it's all about messaging -- so if you look at the stats for smoking cigarettes in the 90s70%.

Of all kids said that they had tried cigarettes.

In the two thousands after the major messaging campaign but it went down to.

45%.

So there's hope here if we do the same thing that we -- we didn't do because the -- glamorizes -- I do remember there was that campaign back in the eighties.

That -- I cannot remember exactly does under Nancy Reagan.

And there was a drop in drug let's just say no we'll just say -- -- got.

You guys got to come to grips with reality -- people who make the messages the people who who are television executives advertising detective.

They like it.

They smoke it themselves Angel -- here right.

Good for the -- I just players we've got fifteen states that it decriminalize marijuana.

Messages -- -- seventeen states senate I have allowed medical marijuana.

That -- to young people that that there is a normalization any medicine medical.

Even I was walking down the street the other day here in Manhattan and -- walk by -- junior high school and with three kids smoking pot outside the rest that is your national registry.

And then a Dick put -- -- thing and cooperated.

And obviously they'll fear -- -- teachers or any authorizes share executed red eyes and make it was walking into -- locker room might say come over here there.

And you could smell marijuana people anyway.

But that's one thing that did the school system really is -- -- about a you'll see a lot of campaigns and public school system the second thing is.

That this -- medical marijuana thing it's.

Oh you know it's open it's good for you do get in there -- -- a headache you can get so it is it is that respect but here's -- didn't have to have a here's why has messaging campaigns can work think about seatbelts for a man.

Nobody wore seatbelts and then suddenly became part of our culture -- this investigation that put in jail if you don't ever want now you you don't even think twice about getting a car cleaning your seatbelt.

-- see you I'm just being an optimist this didn't happen for this and you know what does it looks parent teen driver and a half that makes this whole thing the medical marijuana makes parent is it.

I mean there is -- -- and everybody should understand this of your child and a child goes up to seventeen or eighteen.

A year intoxicating yourself on a regular basis your child has gone okay your whole life changed and you much more susceptible to other toxic -- because it feels good to get -- The suburban high school in a New York City and they have a club in the high school called wake and bake.

And wake and -- meets at 730 outside the public high school smokes pot.

Before trial before school and the store owners in the high school -- -- there's a lot and every kid in high school knows about the -- can -- club.

And -- high school knows about -- does.

Zero what we did have the fact that our governor came out and said what we want I think this is just last week is we want to decriminalized at the point where what may have been allowed in private should now be allowed to Oklahoma -- and.

The Bloomberg the mayor and -- governor say look you can't drink sixteen ounce soda is good.

If you want to do will be wanna -- I had carry around had been they still call they do -- I don't know I don't do my -- You know don't deliver her what do they call it now.

Okay now why are we going into joining the -- -- -- call it a -- yeah.

It's -- loss.

Do we know you wouldn't know that's -- and I'm proud of the fact that I don't know I don't know why -- up front -- there are and lazy gentlemen my personality.

I was slogan -- yeah I'd be in prison that's not right obviously.

Hillary Clinton isn't something you know a lot of money -- -- I don't -- -- -- -- -- -- I don't want good we executed toxic it is not a this.

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