Most of my friends and fellow classmates have smoked it

before and many of them still smoke it on a regular basis. Parents

*Excerpt from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services NIH Publication Number 98-4036

http://www.nida.nih.gov/MarijBroch/Marijintro.html

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ty have no idea that this is so regularly happening and why it is happening. I think that by personal interactions and experiences give me the knowledge to explain it all. Most people think that it can't really be happening and that their sweet little children wouldn't ever dare to do it. Well, they do. At this school many people start experimenting with marijuana in the sixth and seventh grade. Not very many of them are doing this but there are a few. Then, in turn they like it and continue occasionally use it. Well, after a while some of their other friends want to try it also, so they do, and they like it. Then, some more of there friends try it. This cycle goes on and on, so by Jr. High graduation most pre-teens have tried it.

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