Using, holding, buying, or selling marijuana can result in suspension or expulsion from school, hurting one s chances for getting a job or pursuing other interests in the future. Young people can resist peer pressure. It s not easy at first, but once you establish yourself as a nonuser, you will get less pressure as time goes on. Achieving your best in sports, music, or the arts can be severely undermined by messing around with marijuana. There are many examples of people who used marijuana and then regretted it because it messed up their lives.
Teenagers can learn from the mistakes of others.
Youths need to be reminded of the responsibilities they have to those who love and trust them. Teens need to ask themselves whether they really want to be promoting drug abuse by wearing marijuana jewelry or clothing. Consider how much young people have become a victim of promotional techniques designed to put money into somebody else s pocket. Remember that marijuana puts teens at greater risk of messing up their hormones, dropping out of school, getting injured, or engaging in behaviors that have lifelong negative consequences. What makes a person cool is what s inside.