Comment · Mon, April 1, 2013
young children doing drugs
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Brainsailor · 13 points
The other day I met someone who claimed to start smoking weed at the age of four. I'm sure that was bullshit, but it made me think about the ethics of letting children/making children do drugs. What kind of drug do you think would be the best for a child? What do you think psychedelic use such as acid, shrooms, or DMT would do to a child's simplistic worldview? I've never really had a full on discussion about it, except to know that most people say it's wrong.
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roionsteroids · 2 points
1 in 3 Native American children are obese
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_map_of_Male_Obesity,_2008.svg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_map_of_Female_Obesity,_2008.svg
That's not unusual for the US. However, I don't think many children (Native American or not) take part in Peyote rituals anyway (anyone got some numbers on that?).
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
I'm not directly blaming peyote rituals for the statistics I mentioned. However, blinding saying "the American Indians do it, so it must be ok," is a bad argument.
Also: http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/obesity/facts.htm
The percentage of children aged 6–11 years in the United States who were obese increased from 7% in 1980 to nearly 18% in 2010.
So that is lower than the American Indian rate. Don't use Wikipedia for sources.