For the First Time in Recorded History, High School Kids Choosing Pot Over TobaccoBy Matt Agorist There has never been a single recorded death related to the overdose of marijuana, yet SWAT teams will kick in doors, shoot dogs, kidnap and cage people over marijuana. In spite of the tyrannical, immoral, and deadly laws against marijuana, and the almost century-long propaganda campaign spewing lies to kids about the plants effects, teenagers are finally getting it. For decades, high school children have given in to the pro-tobacco/anti-pot crusade of deception and have taken up the deadly habit of smoking cigarettes. However, for the first time in recorded history, high school students are choosing cannabis over Camels. According to Monitoring the Future, a federal survey released on Wednesday, more students in the 12th grade said they smoked pot every day, compared to those who smoke daily cigarettes. Obviously, no one is advocating that high school children use marijuana. However, this transformation in preference is indicative of a positive shift in the drug war paradigm. Also, only 6% of 12th graders admitted to using marijuana on a regular basis hardly a majority. However, this surpasses the 5.5% (down from 6.7% in 2014) of children who said they smoked cigarettes. In spite of the fear tactics shoved down their throats by SWAT teams in public service appearances in high school gyms across the nation, the survey also showed that kids arent buying the bull. Fewer students than ever believe the states lies about marijuana being dangerous. According to areport in Time Magazine: Almost 32% of seniors said they thought regular marijuana use could be harmful, compared to 36% who felt that way last year. The sense that marijuana has medicinal purposes and that doctors are prescribing it creates a sense that this drug cannot be so harmful, says Dr. Nora D. Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health (the group that funded the research). Also, despite fewer high school kids not fearing marijuana, the plants usage among teens hasnt changed. All of those factors have led many to predict that there would be an increase in the pattern of use of marijuana among teenagers, and we are not seeing it, Volkow said. While children are breaking free from their state conditioning telling them to fear a beneficial plant, the survey found that students are declining to use drugs that are actually dangerous. In each of the grades, it noted declining usage rates for cigarettes, alcohol, prescription opioid pain relievers, synthetic marijuana and heroin (which hit a record low at 0.3% for 8th graders and 0.5% for 10th and 12th graders.) These two findings were very surprising, says Volkow. Experts were worried that since prescription opioids and heroin use have gotten more popular nationally, they might see the same trends in teens. The findings of this survey shine a light on the collapse of the states immoral war on drugs. Despite their best efforts to fill the heads of American children with lies and fear about marijuana, children are resisting by informing themselves. While this news is certainly noteworthy and optimistic, it also highlights how much further we have to go to beat this leviathan. In 46 states, police officers will still kidnap, cage, and kill people for attempting to purchase or possessmarijuana. In over half of the country, children are denied the life-saving effects of cannabis because their parents could be thrown in a cage, or killed for giving it to them. Students changing their minds about marijuana is outstanding, now its time for the country, nay, the world to change their minds about depriving humans of their freedom for using it. Matt Agorist writes for TheFreeThoughtProject.com Move to Colorado and imbibe away must be 21 tho. growing brains should not be supplied w/ thc.imo. A good thing! No government has the authority to block people from using any medicine that the person wishes to use. 