Today's marijuana is 10-15 times stronger than that of the 60s. There are over 7000 published scientific and medical studies documenting the damage that marijuana does to the various systems of the body. Not one study gives marijuana a clean bill of health. The number one cause of death in the age group under 25 years is traffic accidents. The number one cause of traffic accidents is driving under the influence of alcohol.
Most alcoholics are ordinary people.
Of all adults who drink, approximately one in ten is likely to be a problem drinker. For every ten wives who remain married to alcoholic husbands, only one husband remains with an alcoholic wife. The average beginning age of alcohol use in Utah among our youth is 13.5 years. Teenage problem drinkers usually don't suffer from physical alcohol-related illness. Research has ascertained that children six to seven years old have already developed attitudes towards and a certain knowledge of alcohol and its use.