It's Just a Plant

Despite efforts to criminalize, restrict and otherwise hide it... children learn about marijuana.

Whether in the schoolyard or the classroom, kids are inundated with information about it. Unfortunately, most "drug facts" are more frightening than educational. Campaigns by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America blame pot, through startling leaps of logic, for homelessness, teen pregnancy and gunplay. Parents have few sources of scientific information about the plant that puts the safety of their children before politics.

The authors of this book believe a child's first awareness of drugs should come from a better source than the media, the government, or the drug manufacturers. Still, many parents are not comfortable discussing drug use beyond "just say no." Some parents use marijuana themselves. Others fear that any discussion of marijuana falling short of outright denouncement may be perceived by their kids as permission to try it on their own.

It's Just a Plant is for them, and for all concerned parents who want to be involved in honestly educating their children about the effects, the dangers and the benefits of marijuana.