Shoddy science claims pot causes aggression in teens
A study done in the Netherlands claims a relationship between aggressive behavior and heavy marijuana usage. A simple examination of the article (Headline: Cannabis ‘can cause aggression in kids’) shows that no causal relationship has been proven in the study, which was not an experiment but rather a survey.
Let’s make this absolutely clear: Correlation is not causation. Correlation is not causation. Correlation is not causation. There are many sociological, psychological, non-medical reasons that may link these two factors. Claiming that pot causes aggression is about as asinine as saying “aggression causes people to smoke pot.”
March 9th, 2006 at 7:28 pm
Pot is not bad it helps me get through bad times like when my mom died it helps with the pain.
March 9th, 2006 at 7:31 pm
Marijuana dosnt cause aggreshion, it makes you calm down it really dose help when you want to beat sumwon up it helps you by not.
March 21st, 2006 at 7:36 pm
I find this one funny, okay this ’survey’ is coming from the ‘Netherlands’, where Marijuana is legal.
So you go around and ask a bunch of kids who don’t ever have to worry about getting arrested for marijuana, or anything if pot makes you mad, and of course their going to be joking around saying YEA IT MAKES ME WANT TO FIGHT, etc etc, I dont know if anyone get’s the point im trying to make.
It’s like asking kids today, do you have sex, and their all like YEA EVERYDAY, in a sarcastic manor. Maybe that helps, lol.
November 14th, 2006 at 12:20 am
kids should be allowed to do what they like and if they want to reuin there life its there falut