cannabisnews.com: By Our Early 30s, We're Hardly Partying By Our Early 30s, We're Hardly Partying Posted by FoM on February 04, 2002 at 08:50:47 PT By Karen S. Peterson, USA Today Source: USA Today Is your social life sagging? It seems that by the time Americans reach their early 30s, they no longer party hearty. And that is a good thing, if you are a researcher in the field of substance abuse. Fewer parties mean less of it, a new study shows.When they are 18, about 94% of males and 92% of females go out at least once a week for fun or recreation. By the time they are 31 or 32, 73% of men and 64% of women get out that often, says a new study from University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR). It's not a sign of the times, but rather an indication of assuming more adult responsibilities such as marriage and parenthood, says lead author Jerald Bachman, an ISR social psychologist. Today's 18-year-olds go out about as much as 18-year-olds did in 1976, he says.In general, he says, "Evenings out for fun and recreation, especially going to parties, hanging out with friends, and going to bars, are activities that decline steadily and substantially with age."Look more closely and it seems even more obvious that party animals have been tamed by their early 30s:• At 18, 52% of men and 48% of women go out more than three times a week.• At 23-24, 35% of men and 24% of women get out that often.• But at 31-32, only 15% of men and 11% of women manage to get out of the house at least three nights a week.That is just fine with Bachman. He is not all that interested in party animals who run out of steam as they age. He is more interested in the fact that young adults who go out frequently in the evening for fun and recreation are more likely than their peers on average to drink heavily and to use illegal drugs. And studying substance abuse is his special interest.Bachman finds that the relationship between nights out and heavy drinking and marijuana use weakens a little with age. Still, at ages 29-32, those who go out at least three nights a week are twice as likely to report marijuana use or heavy drinking than those who go out less than once a week.Bachman's study analyzes 25 years of data on more than 38,000 people from the ISR Monitoring the Future Study, conducted yearly since 1975. That government-supported, long-term research is used as a barometer of trends in various behaviors among American adolescents and young adults.Research indicates that while temporary increases in substance abuse show up after high school, they diminish as young adults marry and have families. "Their social lives change as they take on these other responsibilities," Bachman says. "We find that is what accounts for a lot of the change."The findings from Bachman's team appear in a new book, The Decline of Substance Use in Young Adulthood: Changes in Social Activities, Roles and Beliefs from Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Newshawk: Nicholas Thimmesch IINORML Media & CommunicationsSource: USA Today (US)Author: Karen S. Peterson, USA TodayPublished: February 4, 2002Copyright: 2002 USA Today a division of Gannett Co. Inc.Contact: editor usatoday.comWebsite: http://www.usatoday.com/Related Articles:Bush's Double Standard http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread9969.shtmlYouthful Indiscretion Follows Into Adulthoodhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread7659.shtml END SNIP --> Snipped Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #32 posted by goneposthole on February 05, 2002 at 05:17:15 PT oil, pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers They are all termed 'auxillary inputs'.Back to surreality. [ Post Comment ] Comment #31 posted by goneposthole on February 05, 2002 at 05:09:29 PT Fire! It is perfectly acceptable and legal to yell FIRE! in a crowded theatre when there is a fire. [ Post Comment ] Comment #30 posted by DdC on February 04, 2002 at 22:55:34 PT Bush is Totally Irresponsible! As long as they can, they will. Paying taxes supports WoD terrorism. Homegrown is an economic stumulis package. The fascist are starting to spasm and phlegm is flying from out of their lying mouths onto the camera lens. When is a question of time thats an invention of the same lying bastards. Now is when it stops, as peace begins with me. Now they are lying as in the past and Now is the only time relavant. This insult to our intelligence, the D.E.A.th worshiping O'Really's and psycho chemist drugczar pisstasters. One sided stories that only can win a debate by eliminating it, everyday something else to show the people of their stealth, they never do what they say and say what ever it takes and what ever you want to hear if you have any power to change the status weird. We all have thc receptors and transmittors if they get micro enough everyone's in possession. The only thing these idiots do is increase my ganja intake mellowing out from the laughible gullables and naive taking heads bold face lies and ridiculous side stepping. How many kids will be saved from crack when cops are out chasing nonpsychoactive ditchweed bird habitat, that's 99% of the ganja eradications. I always thought screaming fire in crowded theaters was not only illegal but dumb. Now in the largest crowd gathered to watch the violent pseudosoldiers go at it, inbetween selling Buds in a bottle and pills, lotions and goop on a platter not included in the $billions and $billions of taxes spent on the ludicrous chemical manipulation of our very conscienceness. And to think after 30 years of aiding starvation from sanctions and bombings that isn't going to cause resentment and wingnut kama kazi's, or that Internationalist C.E.O.'s and their korpses lawyers, now sitting in Congress, gutting the safety nets. Increasing profits perpetuating these wars all around the globe weather we ever hear of them or not. Now protecting the lies, blocking investigations, suspending civil rights and freedom of information and anything they damn well desire since we all will just jerk that old Iraqi crude rwb plastic then cry in our beer and get up in the morning and do it all over again. Now is the time to say thats enough, to rise the couch spuds and solidify the victims of this wod mess we're in. Or as past history tells, we can choose to obediently hunger ourselves and forfeit our property, life and liberty cause someone says too. Yet the debt rising more from the bombs we are dropping and crumbs we are lapping op while richy rich's refunded small fortunes. Is ok if you have stock in the banksters, loaning the money to cover expenses at $200 billion a year in interest. Or importing prisoners and selling them food. Or getting fined for insider trading then to repay it cut down the ancient sequoia's for Japanese fiberboards. When hemp could do the very same thing but now even its illegal to eat the seeds. Why are the grain and meat industries so interested in this, paying their fair share in lobbying for the illegislation? The 12 pounds of grain it takes to make one pound of meat all using crude oil pesticides and chemical, hormaonial, god knows what else preservatives. Outlawing competition ain't nothing new, chrishuns been doing it 2000 years, before that the Romans, Greeks and Hebrews. So paying Madison geeks to digatize lies for the ONDCP makes the same tits on a bull sense and a waste regardless of how its spent, if its spent perpetuating this gawd awful WoD D.E.A.th! Now this ad will bring out the wingnut rednecks and zealots with the kkk coalition mindset to burn down black churches and Jewish temples in the name of geeeeeeezus shoot doctors, bomb clinics. Kill innocents wearing turbins now innocent kids who might have long hair or wear something pretaining to legalizing or sound like they might be a one of them wearin a tie dye. These religious drug treatments and prison profits all lay in the hands of George Bush and his irresponsible minions. May he rot and burn in the furtherest debths of Hell! And if it don't exist may his face break out in pox and he live with his D.E.A.th in continual agaony and stress from a bad bad bad case of some funky jock itch!Peace, not a doormat, Love not kissing ass and Liberty for all not just those who can afford it. Its our choice to live here and now and just say no to this stupid surreality. DdC"All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will understand it. Therefore, the intellectual level of the propaganda must be lower the larger the number of people who are to be influenced by it." "Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise." From Benito Mussolini contributing to the "London Sunday Express," December 8, 1935 "The masses have little time to think. And how incredible is the willingness of modern man to believe." "Another weapon I discovered early was the power of the printed word to sway souls to me. The newspaper was soon my gun, my flag - a thing with a soul that could mirror my own." Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini together in the heyday of 1930s fascism."There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice. A state that supresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law." - Kurt Huber [The head of White Rose], killed by the Nazis in 1943. [ Post Comment ] Comment #29 posted by FoM on February 04, 2002 at 18:20:05 PT goneposthole Your comments are not off the wall. I really like the fact that people who comment here feel comfortable about their views and want to share them. The drug war is off the wall and we need input from knowlegeable people like you and others to make sense of it all. I try to look at it this way. We might know something but a new reader of Cannabis News or any Drug Policy News site like http://www.mapinc.org/ might not. That's really how I am learning because I sure had no idea just a few years ago. [ Post Comment ] Comment #28 posted by Jose Melendez on February 04, 2002 at 17:54:13 PT: what they are not saying.... What none of the commentators struck home with the fact that it is the legal status of drugs that make them profitable... it is Prohibition that funds terrorism. Just ask Rand Beers. Arrest Prohibition - Drug War is TREASON [ Post Comment ] Comment #27 posted by goneposthole on February 04, 2002 at 17:53:39 PT wild thing I know that some of my posts are really off the wall and out there. I apologize to everyone who may be offended, I only try to point out how the government's stance on drug prohibition has too far gone.I do not consider cannabis a drug, it is an herb.Here is a quote that grounds me, and I hope that it helps to alleviate any alleged offensiveness I may portray."Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purpose is beneficent.Men born to freedom are naturally alertto repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers.The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidiousencroachment by men of zeal,well-meaning but without understanding."-Louis Dembitz Brandeis, lawyer, judge, and writer (1856-1941) [ Post Comment ] Comment #26 posted by ekim on February 04, 2002 at 17:41:57 PT: Rainbow --Wash Post story Kalamazoo Gazette Today the cover story was the Wash Post Rainbow story. I was amazed to see that it took up part of the front page and all of another. [ Post Comment ] Comment #25 posted by Patrick on February 04, 2002 at 17:35:32 PT On the O'Reilly Factor Factor:Don't get involved in hard drugs he said. Then he said don't get involved with any drugs for that matter?This nation is nothing but drug takers, from Vicks vapor rub and cough medicine users to heroin addicts. Why bother separating drugs with a legal or non-legal status? Seems the status should be lethal or non-lethal and perhaps labeling each substance as such. Why does a cop need to be involved in my drug intake to begin with? [ Post Comment ] Comment #24 posted by FoM on February 04, 2002 at 17:34:27 PT MIGHT! That's right Patrick! That big play on words that observer has taught us about. It's a way of justfying without any accountability. [ Post Comment ] Comment #23 posted by FoM on February 04, 2002 at 17:31:18 PT Nademann did a good job! He was really fired up and kept his focus on marijuana and less on hard drugs. Ecstasy too but he said people will promote home grown marijuana and that way they couldn't possibly support terrorists. That wasn't word for word but I thought it was great. He talked down O'Reilly which isn't easy to do! [ Post Comment ] Comment #22 posted by Patrick on February 04, 2002 at 17:28:29 PT FoM Asa did act like a cop. He also acted like the consumate politician that he is. Especially, when he defended the taxpayer paid ads as being factual simply because the ads only said thet "buying drugs might fund terrorist activities." Pure political hogwash spoken with a smile.On other note, this anti-some-drug campaign brings to mind the overreaching government that Rep. James Traficant, (D) Ohio referred to in the previous segment. Hutchinson is on the side of the long arm of bureaucracy that put Tom & Rollie in a position to defend their American way from Teter's american way. [ Post Comment ] Comment #21 posted by Jose Melendez on February 04, 2002 at 17:25:53 PT: FoxNews Bill O'Reilly just bet Ethan Nadelmann $100 that most ecstacy comes from "Middle Eastern people out of Holland" Nadelmann says Marijuana is not a narcotic, and O'Reilly said he "knew" Nadelmann was going to compare alcohol to drugs. As if alcohol is not a drug. O'Reilly also claimed Nadelmann "hangs around with a bunch of potheads." Reminded me of when former marijuana advocate Dan Quale asked Al Gore what he was smoking... Arrest Prohibition [ Post Comment ] Comment #20 posted by FoM on February 04, 2002 at 17:10:58 PT Patrick I think Keith Stroup did a good job and Hutchinson acted like well a cop. I liked what was said about marijuana is grown in the USA or Canada or Jamaica none being terrorist countries. [ Post Comment ] Comment #19 posted by Patrick on February 04, 2002 at 17:04:40 PT FoM Well Crossfire was interesting. Stroup got the message out about that Prohibition is at the root of the drug problem while Hutchinson boasted about the governement lowering overall drug users over the last so many years. They failed to pick up on Stroup's contention that drug users are not criminals and debate that with Sheriff Hutchinson. [ Post Comment ] Comment #18 posted by goneposthole on February 04, 2002 at 16:25:01 PT Olde Town Cafe Veggie Browns can't be beat. I heard it was closed, maybe or maybe not.I did not know the Oxford was in movies and books, a sight to see in person. I couldn't bear to be there too long, some sad looking characters. Man o' live. [ Post Comment ] Comment #17 posted by FoM on February 04, 2002 at 16:14:23 PT Ethan Nadelmann on O'Reilly Factor - 8 PM Ethan Nadelmann will be appearing on the O'Reilly Factor at 8:00 pm EST tonight on Fox to discuss the ONDCP Superbowl ads.Ethan Nadelmann is the executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance http://www.drugpolicy.org/Thanks for the heads up Richard! [ Post Comment ] Comment #16 posted by Jose Melendez on February 04, 2002 at 15:46:35 PT: Drug money supports terror. ONDCP claims "drug money supports terror". Yet their own documents show they know that prohibition artificially increases the price of drugs. See: http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/publications/pdf/price_illicit.pdf Bet they don't point that out in their ads. Assistant Secretary of State Rand Beers said earlier (last December) that the Taliban did not ban opium farming "out of kindness, but because they wanted to regulate the market: They simply produced too much opium." Do drugs support terror? Only when Prohibition makes drugs enormously and artificially profitable. Arrest Prohibition [ Post Comment ] Comment #15 posted by FoM on February 04, 2002 at 15:22:34 PT Check Out the Picture in The LA Times Crossfire CNN Tonight! Keith Stroup & Hutchinson Airs 7:30 -8:00 p.m. ET Monday - Friday Monday February 04, 2002 MONDAY'S GUESTS: Rep. James Traficant, (D) Ohio Asa Hutchinson, DEA Administrator Keith Stroup, Natl. Organization for Reforming Marijuana Laws Email your questions http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/crossfire/ Tonight in the Crossfire The day after the Super Bowl the score of the game always shares the spotlight with the best ads and this year the Office of National Drug Control Policy bet on that captive audience to broadcast two commercials for $3.5 million. Was this money well spent? Did tying drug use to supporting terrorism provide a powerful message? Will this campaign reach the audience it is targeting? Is the war on drugs in general a loosing battle? The head of the DEA and an advocate for loosening drug laws join us to battle it out. Picture -- http://latimes.p2ionline.com/treeprintads/0003638763-001/p1.htm [ Post Comment ] Comment #14 posted by Jose Melendez on February 04, 2002 at 15:10:59 PT: know history, or repeat it Joe Kennedy sold alcohol when it was illegal. Arrest Prohibition - Drug War is TREASON [ Post Comment ] Comment #13 posted by FoM on February 04, 2002 at 14:48:09 PT Patrick You're welcome. I wish it had been large enough to post as an article but I thought a comment on the top article might work. I hope they don't get into too much into hard drugs and terrroism but more about marijuana reform. We are not in any way shape or form Terrorists! You can click on the link and send in an email question too.http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread11915.shtml#9 [ Post Comment ] Comment #12 posted by Ethan Russo MD on February 04, 2002 at 14:43:41 PT: The Ox Gone Posthole, you know the infamous Ox? This institution is known throughout the Northwest as a sure thing in the alcohol and drunken debauchery category. It has appeared in a couple of books and movies. [ Post Comment ] Comment #11 posted by Patrick on February 04, 2002 at 14:38:32 PT FoM Thanks for the heads up on Crossfire. I would not have known to tune into it otherwise. [ Post Comment ] Comment #10 posted by goneposthole on February 04, 2002 at 14:30:52 PT the worst drugs Go to the Oxford bar in Missoula, Montana. It was open 24 hours per day 365 days per year when I visited there in the mid eighties. If it is still open, probably the same hours. Believe me, there was a party going on.You will witness why alcohol is the worst drug.As I have written before in a past post, alcohol and nicotine are legal because they are the most addictive. [ Post Comment ] Comment #9 posted by FoM on February 04, 2002 at 13:58:39 PT Crossfire CNN Tonight! Keith Stroup & Hutchinson Airs 7:30 -8:00 p.m. ET Monday - Friday Monday February 04, 2002 MONDAY'S GUESTS: Rep. James Traficant, (D) Ohio Asa Hutchinson, DEA Administrator Keith Stroup, Natl. Organization for Reforming Marijuana Laws Email your questions http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/crossfire/ Tonight in the Crossfire... renegade Ohio Congressman James Traficant joins us on the eve of his trial facing corruption and bribery charges. How strong is the case against him? What will be his defense? Has the government been out to get the nine term congressman since he beat bribery charges in 1983? Even if Traficant wins in court will he be able to win reelection in a newly redistricted congressional district? Would both parties be happy to see the Youngstown congressman go or would Congress be loosing one of their most colorful members? The congressman makes his case. Then, the day after the Super Bowl the score of the game always shares the spotlight with the best ads and this year the Office of National Drug Control Policy bet on that captive audience to broadcast two commercials for $3.5 million. Was this money well spent? Did tying drug use to supporting terrorism provide a powerful message? Will this campaign reach the audience it is targeting? Is the war on drugs in general a loosing battle? The head of the DEA and an advocate for loosening drug laws join us to battle it out. [ Post Comment ] Comment #8 posted by FoM on February 04, 2002 at 12:08:21 PT greenfox You just never know. I have not physically met but a few people on line but have talked on the phone to many different people. I feel I have met so many wonderfully dedicated people each in their own special way and I feel honored by that. We as a community, the drug reform community, not just Cannabis News are the most fired up serious bunch of people I have ever met and the common denominator is freedom and fairness. It's a great time to be alive when you think about how bad it is for so many people in the states and more so in the world. [ Post Comment ] Comment #7 posted by greenfox on February 04, 2002 at 11:58:46 PT I know I mentioned this before, but,.... I think that cannabisnews users should all get together and have a picnic or something. I know there is underlying paranoia in all of us, but FoM, I know for fact that you live in Ohio (and I live a little outside of Twinsburg which is close to Cleveland). In ANY event, I know that I could bring the buds :) and we could all just party and chill. What do you think?sly in green, foxy in kind (or sig fik for those who like abbreviations) :)-gf [ Post Comment ] Comment #6 posted by FoM on February 04, 2002 at 11:48:51 PT greenfox You're welcome. Kapt hasn't been able to access C News recently and I know where Observer is and he is fine. dddd I'm worried about. He said he almost didn't make it. He could just be too sick to respond to an email so I asked him to send me his phone number if he wants and I'll call him. [ Post Comment ] Comment #5 posted by greenfox on February 04, 2002 at 11:26:43 PT FoM, Good of you to keep track of our sick friends. :) In all honesty, i miss Kaptinemo and also OBSEVER. Where are you guys?-gf [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by FoM on February 04, 2002 at 10:25:12 PT Just a Note I wanted you all to know I am writing back and forth to Kapt. He has been very busy and will be back soon. I thought you all would like to know. I emailed dddd again today and he hasn't responded. I would call him if I had his phone number but I don't. If he gets back with me and is too sick to comment here I'll make sure you all know how he's doing. [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by Lehder on February 04, 2002 at 10:11:29 PT scourge of television What is more surprising is that the sense of relaxation ends when the set is turned off, but the feelings of passivity and lowered alertness continue. Survey participants commonly reflect that television has somehow absorbed or sucked out their energy, leaving them depleted. They say they have more difficulty concentrating after viewing than before.Jerome L. and Dorothy Singer of Yale University, among others, have suggested that more viewing may contribute to a shorter attention span, diminished self-restraint and less patience with the normal delays of daily life. More than 25 years ago psychologist Tannis M. MacBeth Williams of the University of British Columbia studied a mountain community that had no television until cable finally arrived. Over time, both adults and children in the town became less creative in problem solving, less able to persevere at tasks, and less tolerant of unstructured time.http://www.sciam.com/2002/0202issue/0202kubey.html [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by Dark Star on February 04, 2002 at 09:55:09 PT Outliers I bet that a high proportion of CNews denizens are bucking the trends. Thank God for diversity. [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by E_Johnson on February 04, 2002 at 09:55:02 PT We can mature without government control? Imagine that -- human beings can mature and learn to manage family responsibilities on their own.Maybe we evolved to be able to run our own lives after all. [ Post Comment ] Post Comment