it because of you know more recently than the legalization of marijuana in various forms have been taking place across the united states the public has come to a whole different conclusion about marijuana than it did in one nine hundred sixty eight but what is even more interesting than that about this nobody else than the founding member gene clark of the byrds so the music is really have been cool and the way that sonny bono has dressed real real shiny kind of duds well i got themselves and you whether grass is good or bad but what's most important is what you think so without any preaching from this bill let's examine the facts and doesn't have a point like alcohol right the facts are if you drink enough alcohol will give you hangovers cirrhosis of the liver and what's more it can even kill you if you are certain emotional and psychological types you may become dependent both physically and emotionally and will join the five to six million known alcoholics in the united states now what are the facts about now on what doctors and psychologists have to say about which is worse for you physically and emotionally alcohol are not the facts are at this time there are no known damage in physical effects from the use of marijuana but unlike alcohol when you take too much or one time you don't pass out more than the pressures of school finding your own identity and self confidence that you have bred drug dependency that could just as well be alcohol some adults are not mature or strong enough to stand the pressures of their da these adults can become just as emotionally dependent on marijuana as an alcohol was never as more socially acceptable and easier to get just as the alcohol drinker who finds himself need in a drink more and more frequently is the warning sign of his dependency so it is with the pot in the morning means the scale of reality or the pleasure ya that's right that's a fact no one ever got cancer from but it's also bad that no one ever dropped out of school because they were hung up on tobacco bans no one who just finished smoking a cigarette never forgot still driving a car she tripped out on the reality of the bad road or is this or this and would you rather your pilot had just finished the joint not a cigarette operating on your attorney pleading your case your sergeant or even the guy who is just changing your front tires would you rather he was smoking a cigarette or a giant power ever neither your government nor any responsible person recommends smoking well as much grasses you like in your body or need a ride you can quit anytime you like not true for everybody and that the blom the world health organization of the united nations with its leading medical and psychiatric experts from over one hundred member nations has this to say about marijuana being habit forming without one dissentin that may be true for the great majority or smoke pot but it's not true for the many thousands who have gone onto massive ma'am said a man barbiturates arrow on however it is not a fact that practically everyone on grass turns into a flaky drug addict that's just not true every informed person knows what is true may be discovered in this narcotics rehabilitation center in some of the group therapy sessions where we will learn what former drug addicts have to say about marijuana turning them on to our drug marijuana you are subjected to the environment and it does become readily available that's the way it is man you know when you're around a crowd and you're smoking weed and then they start using some of it are going to go right here along with them and  you end up isn't it you get higher and then the weed isn't good enough anymore for myself but i manage some of the other dude in here feel the same way i do about it that some people are addicted prone to it i like my cell i can handle it because i mean this is just the way i am i use  i did it before i came in here i hope when i go out that i've changed in which i feel that i have but but i'm well almost small minority of people that we can't handle meeting like my all i can handle that i fact if you are the only one affected by what you do but the constitution and the laws that came out of it were designed to protect the individual and the group from irresponsible individuals which is why there are speeding laws building safety laws here food laws your drug laws laws to protect your money laws to protect children laws to protect the aged and even a law to protect you from taking your own life so the latest vaccine the manufacture and control of all drugs is government so provide what you really want in any other way like without government supervision  as a drug marijuana comes under the supervision of the federal and state governments it is the assigned work of the police to enforce the law it is not something they dreamed up by their own  from the ten commandments to the constitution man has made laws to protect him from hurting himself in the common interest of the group called society doctors psychiatry social scien biochemist basically people who are not primarily concerned with the ethics or morality of the use of marijuana have provided their expert knowledge to our legislators which in turn has caused them to pass laws to make marijuana illegal not as a matter of morality but as a matter of how mental h quite a lot of marijuana there's no question about it many young people agree with that let's examine the facts first marijuana is now legal all over the world it isn't legal in mexico  now china japan or any of the major nations in the civilized world nigeria is one of the latest countries to make marijuana illegal here the push given a death penalty though each year more and more teenagers commit crimes while up underground this is not the major problem however grat says they factor in crime and not the overlap especially in that percentage unstable and aggressive types and those who wind up in trouble with the law because of something done while they are  too many average indecent teenagers smoke pot without committing crimes except for the illegality of the sale possession or the years of it so why not make it illegal why not bring it out in the open and make it illegal  america is just that there are too many unstable people in america who would become emotionally dependent on marijuana and end up as nonfunctioning easy availability and the implied approval of society will in the opinion of many medical authorities create a drug dependency problem far more serious than that of the five to six million alcoholics today it's the knowledge effect of marijuana is much greater than alcohol it becomes easy to see why the emotionally unstable and immature may turn to marijuana in even greater numbers than to alcohol and eventually go to more dangerous drugs in the form of valid these pills and heroin me me oh well call me it's possible and that's the problem you can never tell who is so stable and so emotionally secure that they will not become dependent on marijuana or other drugs for pleasure and full time  there but only kids take this is the same subject matter and painter or both painting one was painted before going up on wade and the other well high and when you see any significant creative differen necessary talent to be so really it makes me understand myself if you know and understand yourself when you're down then there's no logical or scientifically accepted reasons that you will win your high besides while you're up on grass you may tell yourself only what you want to know if you are lucky enough not to be on a bad trip and discover a frightening thing about yourself at that time let's face it the reasons we've heard for blowing grass up to now are like an iceberg what about the underlying reasons that are life and ninety percent of the iceberg you never see the reasons below the surface that makes teenagers get so many up on now one in spite of what their parents say and spite of the big risk of being busted obviously these are things i'm bug a lot of the end people but this time rather than hear from the establishment who run newspapers radio television book and magazine publishing companies political well i don't need that kind of crutch besides i've never seen any party has come up with any kinds of answers that help them cope with the kind of problems they have all i have i think this is that they are very idealistic but we don't have definite ways  have lots of us have had a better education than they have but that doesn't put them solutions for their problems that are trying to find new experiences i said the teenage is a time to put up or shut up not to gripe and go on a trip inside yourself parents have to have to go out every day and deal with the things in the outside world that bug them too i know my parents are too hung up on making money putting on a show for the neighbors does this mean i have to put down money completely because maybe when i get married i'm not so money for my family too i just don't have to be as materialistic about it so the world is changing and some things are still too hard for parents to understand but blowing grass and that's really a copout and it won't help our parents understand the darn thing because like everything else you only get out of it what you put into it it's not a party believe that adults disappointed in not because it's always been expected of young people to try to change things to make things better or at least prepared to change things we don't like and not to cop out on life the grass at having a go i don't mean that they should just be crying to make money and all that but i think that trying to find something you enjoy doing for the rest of your life is the least you can do now because everybody has to work well now you've heard from both sides of the question but what you do with your lie is up to you if you become a pothead you risk blowing the most important time of your life your teen age that unrepeatable time for you to grow up and to prepare for being an adult that can handle problems and make something meaningful a lot of lives or you have the choice to have the courage to see and deal with the world for what it really is far far from perfect but for you and for me the only wonder is while it's love you will actually go to the moon and perhaps other planets this world will be your establishment and you will be the establishment and what you do or do yours and you're the generation with the brain power and the opportunity to do more for the human needs of this world than any other generation in history let's hope that your teenage children don't add too much criticism about what you did or didn't do because you were on