| Amazingly enough, it is now estimated that 40% | | | | possible marijuana addiction. As it is impossible for us |
| (forty percent) of children are now trying or using | | | | to shield our children from exposure to such |
| marijuana at least once before leaving High School. I | | | | pressures, we need to think of ways to help them |
| would never have guessed the statistic to be that | | | | understand that celebrities are fallible human beings |
| 'high'! Please excuse the pun. | | | | just like the rest of us. Their choices are not always |
| On the other hand, I do not think there is one | | | | the best - which is also true of everyone else on the |
| American that can honestly say that she has never | | | | planet. |
| known a person who used marijuana or has not done | | | | It is difficult to overcome the celebrity influence |
| so herself. When you stop to ponder the implications | | | | factor. The same extends to sport celebrities as well. |
| of that, it can be staggering. | | | | If we could someone help our youth to understand |
| I think that as parents, most of us would definitely | | | | that seeing someone on TV does not make them |
| like our children to avoid such an experience. This is | | | | any more special than seeing your neighbor cut their |
| especially true when you think of the effects that | | | | grass. It is funny in a way, because even adults |
| science tells us are possible for those who are using | | | | susceptible to the neurosis of thinking celebrities are |
| this particular drug. | | | | special people or that they are somehow more |
| The symptoms can include decreased ability to solve | | | | important than others. The idolization or admiration of |
| problems as well as decreased ability to learn and | | | | those who have wealth or have accumulated wealth |
| remember. This definitely cannot be helpful to children | | | | falls under this umbrella as well. |
| who's brains are still developing and while they are in | | | | We all have experiences of those suffering from |
| their school years attempting to learn everything | | | | some kind of drug addiction, don't we? I remember |
| they can to help themselves become successful in | | | | meeting a young woman and her boyfriend one time. |
| life! | | | | She was exceptionally beautiful. I saw her again |
| Celebrities serve as role models to our children. | | | | almost a year later. She had a terrible scar on her |
| Unfortunately, many celebrities have been arrested | | | | face and her boyfriend was in rehab. He had driven |
| for drug use or have been in rehab. In either case, | | | | her in a car while under the influence of both drugs |
| this can negatively influence our children and the | | | | and alcohol. The accident scarred her for life. Don't let |
| ultimate decisions they make regarding drug use and | | | | this happen to you or someone you love. |