Did you know...

· The average age of a marijuana smoker is 17

· 14.8 million Americans age 12+ used marijuana at least once in the month

· 60% of high school students smoke marijuana

· It takes about 2 days for THC to exit your system

· Adult males were 50 percent more likely to have smoked marijuana in the last month than females

· You can’t get physically addicted, but you can be mentally addicted to marijuana

· Police arrested an estimated 723,627 persons for marijuana violations in 2001

· Possession of marijuana comprises nearly half of all drug arrests in the United States

New York

Tomorrow I'm leaving for New Yoork City and I'm hoping to get some ideas while I'm up there. There sould be some advrtising about teen abuse of marijuana and I'm hoping to come back with a better knoledge of where I want to go with this project

Essential Question

How can a commercial be designed to influence teens not to smoke...?

Give me some feedback I don't like how it sounds.

These are the links

This is the main web site for Above the Influence:
http://www.abovetheinfluence.com/facts/default.aspx?id=google


This is an informational site about marijuana it has some useful facts that i've used.
http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/drug_guide/Marijuana

I hope you have found these usful.

Some sites

Today iv'e been looking at some really helpful sites about marijuana and the affects of it. There is so much information about this topic that I am kinda overwelmed with all of the information I have, but it will all be very helpful in the end.