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  If We Target One Drug, It Must Be Marijuana 

Posted by CN Staff on May 21, 2005 at 10:12:19 PT
By Joseph A. Califano Jr. 
Source: Iowa City Press-Citizen 

USA -- The increased potency of today's marijuana and the greater knowledge we have of the dangers of using it justify the increased attention that law enforcement is giving to illegal possession of the drug. But the disappointing reality is that a nearly 30 percent increase in marijuana arrests does not translate into a comparable reduction in use of the drug. Something more is needed.Rudolph Giuliani's success in slashing New York City's crime rate by, among other things, going after low-level street crimes such as smoking and selling small amounts of marijuana inspired many other mayors to follow suit.
When President Bush announced in 2002 a goal of reducing illegal drug use by 10 percent in two years and 25 percent in five years, he knew he had to focus on cutting marijuana use. Eliminating all other illegal drug use combined would not even get him close to his highly touted objective. Even though marijuana use has leveled off or waned slightly over the past several years, the number of children and teenagers in treatment for marijuana dependence and abuse has jumped 142 percent since 1992, and the number of teen emergency room admissions in which marijuana is implicated is up almost 50 percent since 1999. Though alcohol remains by far the teen substance of choice, teens are three times likelier to be in treatment for marijuana than for alcohol (and six times likelier to be in treatment for marijuana than for all other illegal drugs combined). The drug adversely affects short-term memory, the ability to concentrate and motor skills. Recent studies indicate that it increases the likelihood of depression, schizophrenia and other serious mental health problems. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, has repeatedly expressed concern about the adverse effect of marijuana on the brain, a matter of particular moment for youngsters whose brains are still in the development stage. The issue of marijuana use ( and most illegal drug use ) is all about kids. If we can get kids not to smoke marijuana before they reach age 21, they are virtually certain never to do so. So let's do more than trumpet the arrest rate. Let's focus on discouraging children and teens from getting involved with the drug in the first place. Availability is the mother of use, so doing a far better job of reducing availability is high on the list. Beyond that -- and recognizing that reducing demand is key to that goal -- we should use the increased arrest rate as an opportunity to discourage use. Reach Joseph A. Califano Jr., president of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University and secretary of health, education and welfare from 1977 to 1979, via -- http://www.casacolumbia.org/Newshawk: AfterburnerSource: Iowa City Press-Citizen (IA)Author: Joseph A. Califano Jr.Published: May 20, 2005Copyright: 2005 Iowa City Press-CitizenContact: opinion press-citizen.comWebsite: http://www.press-citizen.comRelated Articles: War on Drugs Gone To Pothttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread20691.shtmlDrug Czar Blasted Over Pot Storyhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread20676.shtmlThe War on Pot: Wrong Drug, Wrong Warhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread20674.shtmlMarijuana Becomes Focus of Drug Warhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread20619.shtml

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Comment #38 posted by FoM on June 01, 2005 at 11:59:52 PT
News Article from The Iowa City Press-Citizen 
Marijuana Petition Fails CertificationBy Abigail McWilliam, Iowa City Press-Citizen Wednesday, June 1, 2005Iowa -- The petition filed by a recent University of Iowa graduate calling for the legalized use of marijuana for medical purposes in Iowa City failed certification.Iowa City clerk Marian Karr said Monday the petition failed because of a lack of valid signatures and because the filed petition didn't contain the full text of the proposed measure.George Pappas, 24, can file a notice to amend his petition within two days after receiving a letter of the insufficiencies. He then has 15 days to file another petition with additional signatures. Only one amendment can be filed."We pretty much assumed it would be insufficient," Pappas said. "That's how signature collection goes."He said a local community group, Progressive Approach, formed to advocate the legalization of marijuana for medicinal purposes and organized the petition."We will definitely file to amend it," Pappas said. "We feel confident we will collect the signatures we need."Pappas turned in the petition April 28 with more than 2,800 signatures.After examining the petition for the 2,500 signatures required, Karr said it fell short 979 registered voters.Karr said there were multiple problems with the petition signatures including no addresses, addresses not matching voter rolls and illegible signatures.City charter also requires the proposed ordinance be attached to the petition filed in the clerk's office, which it wasn't.The initiative of the petition is intended to ensure "patients, for whom marijuana has been recommended by a physician, suffer no punishment or penalty for obtaining, possessing and or using medicinal marijuana and/or paraphernalia used to consume medicinal marijuana."The city has 15 days to certify the petition when Pappas amends the petition.If the petition is certified, the council must either adopt the proposal or place it on the ballot, Karr said.Note: Group planning to amend, refile.Copyright: 2005 Iowa City Press-Citizenhttp://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050601/NEWS01/506010309/1079
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Comment #37 posted by jose melendez on May 29, 2005 at 09:01:54 PT
FOX NEWS KNOWS: jail is for profits
from: http://www.overgrow.com/edge/showthread.php?t=639021"Sheppard Smith on Fox news yesterday afternoon asked some dickhead congressman (who has a new tough on crime bill coming up for a vote), why people who use marijuana in the privacy of their homes are locked in a cell that could hold a violent offender? The congressman replied that, "Drug's are bad...Ukay! Drugs lead to other crimes being committed." Shep then interrupted him by saying, "Oh, yeah right, I see everyday where at least 10 pot smokers decide to go out and kill someone."(snip)He didn't know what to say. He changed the subject from pot to violent criminals being released early. Sheppard Smith told him like it was. I was proud of FOX news for once and probably the last. Anyway the Drug Czar is saying that nobody is in prison for smoking kind......go figure. I think they are so barbaric and backwards that one day our children will be saying how their parents lived through the marijuana holocaust . . . " - - -from: http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=6392&fcategory_desc=Campaign%20Financing%20and%20Lobbying The Warden for Profit George Zoley makes no secret of what he wants from Bush: big-dollar contracts for his security firm, the GEO Group, to guard federal prisons. "We don't want to provide guards at the local shopping center," he says. "We are looking at a single government payer for our services." Zoley's company, formerly known as Wackenhut Corrections, is the world's largest operator of private prisons, earning more than $600 million a year incarcerating inmates. Its facilities are notorious:- In Louisiana, where guards routinely beat and tear-gassed teenage offenders, a Republican judge lambasted GEO for treating children "as if they walked on all fours." - In Texas, where male guards molested female inmates, a fourteen-year-old named Sara Lowe committed suicide after her release. Asked by CBS whether Lowe deserved an apology, Zoley said, "Not that I'm aware of. I don't know what you meant by that."from http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/926902/posts" . . . one Midwestern state prison study suggests that as many as 20 percent of prisoners are raped at some point in their sentence . . . "from google's cache of http://www.house.gov/wolf/news/2003/gainesvillesun.pdfSheriff's Office officials had said Jackson had a clean disciplinary record,
with the exception of a fight early in his sentence. Later in the week, Sheriff's Office
spokesman Lt. Jim Troiano said Jackson had been disciplined in November 2002 for
talking back to a corrections officer, and had been reported to jail staff twice in February
for making threats against other inmates.Troiano said an error by jail staff likely kept that information from surfacing Tuesday.
"Our statements on Tuesday were based on the information we received from jail staff,"
he said.Three barracks-style dormitories at the jail are set aside for nonviolent male felony
inmates. Together, they have a total of 244 beds.
Jail records show a total of 18 beds available in those dormitories on the morning of June
6, the day the alleged rape victim was admitted to the jail. Records from the morning of
June 7 again show 18 beds available in those dormitories.But that doesn't mean 18 beds were open when the victim signed in at 2 p.m., Faulk said.
A large number of weekend inmates enter the jail on Friday afternoon, he said, and other
nonviolent inmates leave on bail at all hours of the night.*** "It's like a motel," Faulk said. "You've got people coming in and out all the time." ***- - -Hot Prison Stocks - CXW, GGI, & CRN
Corrections Corp. of America (CXW), The Geo Group (GGI) and Cornell Cos. (CRN) are all well known prison stocks. Kinda sick that there is such a thing, eh?Since September 11th prison stocks have warmed up.Mass dententions push up prison stockshttp://www.workers.org/ww/2001/prisons1025.phpand from the scumbag investor point of view, Don Hodges, president of Hodges Capital Management, has a quote:*** "As long as the industry continues to improve, which we think it will, these companies will be thought of as hotel companies," he added. "Because that's really what they do." ***http://money.cnn.com/2004/04/30/news/midcaps/prison_companies/
***THEY KNOW "It's like a motel," IT MAKES THEM MONEY!
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Comment #36 posted by Hope on May 24, 2005 at 07:43:08 PT
What the prohibitionists will accomplish.
If they bear down on marijuana enough, they will cause, or are already causing, the balloon or waterbed effect. Only it won't be marijuana use that extends. It will be hard drug use.They might actually be able to cut drastically the availability of marijuana. After all, it's bulky and it has a powerful odor that makes it more difficult to smuggle and use than the less detectable, more dangerous substances. If they apply enough pressure, they could, indeed have measurable success at eradicating use of the plant. Commonsense, scientific studies, reality, and history prove that what will happen will not be disappearance, but displacement. Drug testing might make some people quit marijuana and fold their hands complacently and be "good children", but we already know that it drives many people to less detectable, more dangerous drugs. If the government and its enforcers are successful in their marijuana push, they will have a similar result. They will drive many people that might be content with using marijuana to use harder drugs, which are easier to smuggle, easier to pass drug tests with, and, thanks to their big marijuana push, more available than ever. The consequence of more demand for the harder drugs and no actual regulation will cause the harder drugs to be even more likely to be deadly and toxic than they already are.
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Comment #35 posted by ekim on May 23, 2005 at 20:08:37 PT
maybe this will help too
www.jackherer.com  empeor wears no cloths.
"Did Anyone Consult the AMA?" Chapter 4
However, even within his controlled Committee hearings, many expert
witnesses spoke out against the passage of these unusual tax laws.Dr. William G. Woodward, for instance, who was both a physician and an
attorney for the American Medical Association, testified on behalf of the
AMA.He said, in effect, the entire fabric of federal testimony was tabloid
sensationalism! No real testimony had been heard! This law, passed in
ignorance, could possibly deny the world a potential medicine, especially
now that the medical world was just beginning to find which ingredients in
cannabis were active.Woodward told the committee that the only reason the AMA hadn't come out
against the marijuana tax law sooner was that marijuana had been described
in the press for 20 years as "killer weed from Mexico."The AMA doctors had just realized "two days before" these spring 1937
hearings, that the plant Congress intended to outlaw was known medically as
cannabis, the benign substance used in America with perfect safety in scores
of illnesses for over one hundred years."We cannot understand yet, Mr. Chairman," Woodward protested, "why this bill
should have been prepared in secret for two years without any intimation,
even to the profession, that it was being prepared." He and the AMA" were
quickly denounced by Anslinger and the entire congressional committee, and
curtly excused.3*The AMA and the Roosevelt Administration were strong antagonists in 1937.When the Marijuana Tax Act bill came up for oral report, discussion, and
vote on the floor of Congress, only one pertinent question was asked from
the floor: "Did anyone consult with the AMA and get their opinion?"Representative Vinson, answering for the Ways and Means Committee replied,
"Yes, we have. A Dr. Wharton [mistaken pronunciation of Woodward?] and {the
AMA} are in complete agreement!"With this memorable lie, the bill passed, and became law in December 1937.
Federal and state police forces were created, which have incarcerated
hundreds of thousands of Americans, adding up to more than 14 million wasted
years in jails and prisons - even contributing to their deaths - all for the
sake of poisonous, polluting industries, prison guard unions and to
reinforce some white politicians' policies of racial hatred.(Mikuriya, Tod, M.C., Marijuana Medical Papers, 1972; Sloman, Larry, Reefer
Madness, Grove Press, 1979; Lindsmith, Alfred, The Addict and the Law,
Indiana U. Press; Bonnie & Whitebread; The Marijuana Conviction, U. of VA
Press; U.S. Cong. Records; et al.)
http://www.leap.cc/events
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Comment #34 posted by jose melendez on May 23, 2005 at 19:44:43 PT
hit it!
Go get em ddunn! You are right on target, remember also that essential fatty acids are in the seeds, which is yet another market in which American "manufacturers" (farmers) are denied legitimate access. Also note that some 80- 90 percent of schizophrenics smoke cigarettes, and many are chain smokers. Will they be offered jail as "treatment?"Not as long as Congress makes laws that protect poison manufacturers against economic competition from cannabis, and paid shysters can promote this idea in Raich v. Ashcroft:from google's cache of www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/03-1454.pdfJUSTICE KENNEDY: -- this a harder or easier case than Wickard when we know that, in Wickard, it was lawful to buy and sell wheat, and, here, it is unlawful to buy and sell marijuana? MR. CLEMENT: Well, Justice Kennedy  JUSTICE KENNEDY: Does this make your case easier, in a sense, or . . .MR. CLEMENT: I think it does, Justice Kennedy, because, as I said earlier, in responding to a question from Justice Scalia, I think if you're talking about a context where Congress has the undoubted power to prohibit something in interstate commerce entirely, and has exercised that power, so it treats something as effectively contraband in interstate commerce, and then takes the complementary step, especially in light of the fungibility of the product, and says, "We're just going to treat this as contraband simpliciter." I think that judgement by Congress has a very definite link to interstate commerce and its unquestioned authority to regulate interstate commerce. And I do think there's a sense in which when Congress is regulating the price of something, there's certainly a temptation to excise out relatively small producers and for Congress to say, "Well, we can still have effective regulation if we regulate the vast majority of production." But with respect to something that's unlawful to have and is -- and has very significant risks precisely because it's unlawful, any little island of lawful possession of non-contraband marijuana, for example, poses a real challenge to the statutory regime. It would also, I think, frustrate Congress' goal in promoting health.** And I think the clearest example of that is the fact that, to the extent there is anything beneficial, health-wise, in marijuana, it's THC, which has been isolated and provided in a pill form, and has been available as a Schedule III substance, called . . . JUSTICE GINSBURG: But there's  . . .MR. CLEMENT: -- Marinol. JUSTICE GINSBURG: -- but there is, in this record, a showing that, for at least one of the two plaintiffs, there were some -odd drugs taken, none of them worked. This was the only one that would. And it  Justice Souter asked you about these two plaintiffs. The law can't be made on the basis of those two plaintiffs. But let's suppose that you're right, generally. (snipped) - - -IT IS UNLAWFUL for one 15 acre company to have a monopoly in a 10.5 BILLION DOLLAR DOMESTIC MARKET!IT IS ALSO UNLAWFUL for one company to have a monopoly in the importation of coca leaf!Yet, Justice Department's Antitrust Division, DEA, FDA and FTC are not fining Mahmoud Elsohly, or Stepan Natural Products in Maywood, New Jersey or fining the the companies that fund antidrug advertising with HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS for colluding to construct devices in restraint of trade, or any of the many other crimes I've described here.To the contrary, it would appear clear not only from newspaper and activist accounts, but consistently throughout every aspect of this drug war, from lies and outright perjury that is visible to this day in transcripts of Congressional testimony to Congress' own disclosed financial records; drug war is crime. Whenever recorded votes are made subsequently in favor of special interest donors that contributed what would be a windfall to well over eighty percent of the workers and citizens of this country, there's your outrage.Bob Dole and his proteges like Mark Souder and Newt Gingrich make millions from and billions for the same market that the Pfizers and Philip Morrises of the world have financially funded efforts to deny American trade and commerce. As a rather infamous former judge told me personally, "there ain't no Justice in America. "I say that any court willing to overlook, ignore and suppress relevant, material evidence that would tend to exonerate the accused is of the marsupial variety. If they are not bought and paid for outright, they certainly get high together, in bars near courthouses everywhere.So, with that rant, here's some more activist resource links; write letters to editorial boards, to Congress, to encourage your local NORML attorney to help you sue, or for him to run for office, on a platform that drug war is immoral AND unlawful:http://www.freedomactivist.net/actions.htmlhttp://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=3445
Prohibitionists: Addicted, crooks, or both? (the expose NPR ought be doing)
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Comment #33 posted by ddunn on May 23, 2005 at 12:23:07 PT:
Marijuana and Schizophrenia
The Iowa City Press-Citizen must be trying to win the William Randolph Hearst yellow journalism award. http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread20711.shtmlHow so? In its article, “If We Target One Drug, It Must Be Marijuana,” it makes the unsubstantiated claim that “Recent studies indicate that it [marijuana] increases the likelihood of depression, schizophrenia and other serious mental health problems.” (May 21, 2005).The research making those claims is seriously flawed. Some claim that marijuana is the second most abused “drug” after alcohol. That research completely ignored tobacco as well as pharmaceutical “legal” drugs and other illegal drugs. There are too numerous to mention serious flaws in these alleged research papers. The use of the word “indicate” should clue you that they don’t have the data to support their claim.Licit drugs such as tobacco, alcohol and pharmaceuticals as well as illicit drugs such as, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and methamphetamines play a significant role in depleting the brain of Essential Fatty Acids among other things. At Complementary Schizophrenia Treatment http://www.schizophrenia.com/treatments.htmthere are about 12 research articles reporting positive results in treating persons with schizophrenia and bi-polar disorders with Essential Fatty Acids from fish oils. Of course there are the warnings about such oils because of the ocean borne toxins fish consume.The best source for pollution free Essential Fatty Acids that most closely matches the body’s need of these in optimal proportions is cannabis hemp.Cannabis hemp can’t be researched because the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), better known as the Child and Human Abuse Administration, won’t allow American universities to research cannabis hemp. The Nanny Republican-controlled Congress wants the government to tell us everything we can’t do in order to take away our Ninth and Tenth Amendment rights. Consequently, American universities can’t research cannabis hemp and its efficacy in the treatment of schizophrenia and bi-polar disorders plus a whole host of other ailments.THC (marijuana) is not a drug. THC doesn’t mess with the brain’s dopamine-production system. Tobacco, alcohol, illicit and licit drugs do. THC is a cannabinoid—not a drug—one of among at least 60 other cannabinoids and not necessarily the most potent. Cannabinoids are essential elements the brain and body need for its cannabinoid receptors to send signals properly.Cannabis hemp needs to be legalized. Then we can get the foods that have the necessary Essential Fatty Acids that our body and brains need for optimal development and performance.Initial and replicative research needs to be done with all aspects of cannabis hemp. Research needs to be done on cannabinoids individually for their benefits and synergistically as to how well they might work in treating a variety of illnesses. Historically, the prospects are very promising.Perhaps that’s why the nanny government and the yellow journalists want to keep screaming unfounded hysteria.
If We Target One Drug, It Must Be Marijuana
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Comment #32 posted by goneposthole on May 22, 2005 at 17:39:45 PT
Drug Warriors want it both ways
If Joseph A. Califano Jr. and Rudolph Giuliani were to go out tonight, score some pot, sit down and have a few puffs, who would stop them? Rush Limbaugh? Michael Bloomberg?Let's face the music, the drug war is lost and drugs have won. All of them. Booze, tobacco, cocaine, Zoloft, Vioxx, you name it, they're everywhere you go and there is nothing that can be done to stop them. Nothing.Name one place in this country where you can't find some drug of any kind, legal or illegal. Just one.Cannabis is the least of my worries, and it should be theirs, too.
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Comment #31 posted by afterburner on May 22, 2005 at 11:32:01 PT

RE Comment #21
Appalling! The gentle cannabis people of the Philippines are being co-opted by the poisonous tobacco lobby, led by another Philip, Philip-Morris!
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Comment #30 posted by FoM on May 22, 2005 at 11:31:10 PT

Toker00
Insure those who use natural remedies what a concept! I almost died from using prescription drugs years ago. I'm not using that as a loose statement either. I was hospitalized and had dropped down to 89 pounds. Now my weight is up to a safe level. I can't barely handle taking an aspirin. I use herbs and essential oils and I feel so much better then I ever did in my legal drug taking years. 
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Comment #29 posted by Toker00 on May 22, 2005 at 11:21:01 PT

FoM
Maybe they should insure only those patients who use natural remedies for illness or pain. From what I hear, those old hippies are pretty healthy! At least the ones fortunate enough to be able to continually acquire natural medicines. Their organs are not damaged by the side affects pharmacueticals, designed to "treat" (not cure) one organ, while damaging other organs they are forced to go through on their voyage through the human body. Maybe it would be a good idea to return to natural remedies instead of "maybe this will work" pills and chemicals. Ya think? I heard these Cannabinoid receptors in our body are a popular study these days. As well as the Cannabinoids, available in all places, in Cannabis. How surprising is this?Peace. Legalize, then Revolutionize!(medicine)(energy)(nutrition)
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Comment #28 posted by FoM on May 22, 2005 at 10:16:58 PT

Thanks ekim
We turned on AMC! We bought Easy Rider and have it on DVD and the sound track too. I have the Easy Rider sound track along with Neil in my CD player these days.
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Comment #27 posted by ekim on May 22, 2005 at 10:04:38 PT

on AMC ch 254 at 1:30 Easy Rider
If i see Born on the 4th of July I will let you know FoM.
http://www.leap.cc/howard/
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Comment #26 posted by FoM on May 22, 2005 at 09:01:25 PT

ekim
Drug testing is trying to become a way of protecting insurance companies from paying out large claims in my opinion. Drug testing isn't about safety but control. Born on the Fourth of July was a great movie. It's one I would like to see again.
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Comment #25 posted by ekim on May 22, 2005 at 08:52:58 PT

docu--drama--
last nite on AMC ch. Born on the 4th of July was shown. a very powerful movie about Nam, and those who spoke out against that War.
 
When i read today about Peter Lewis i thought what a impact a movie showing the injustice of the Cannabis War is having on this Country. How has the imprisonment of thought in this Country stifled our ability to be creative.What impact does the insurance companies have on only insuring employees that are screened for Cannabis use and related offences.We are loosing our paper making ability due to high cost of pulp and our textile industry is drying up along with many farmers as much needed renewable Hemp is not allowed to be grown and studied.
http://www.leap.cc/events
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Comment #24 posted by FoM on May 22, 2005 at 08:16:18 PT

afterburner
You got mail! Thanks!
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Comment #23 posted by dirtmover on May 22, 2005 at 08:08:39 PT

Insanity
The drug warriors will never get it.
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Comment #22 posted by afterburner on May 22, 2005 at 07:07:32 PT

FoM
You have time-sensitive mail!
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Comment #21 posted by jose melendez on May 22, 2005 at 04:36:54 PT

Philip Morris Supports Alternative Drugs Crops
Targeting One Drug: Hypocrisy, or Genocide?http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n819/a04.html?397
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Comment #20 posted by FoM on May 21, 2005 at 21:12:31 PT

News Article About Peter Lewis
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/columnists/guests/s_336476.html
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Comment #19 posted by jose melendez on May 21, 2005 at 18:56:52 PT

flip flop
"why not treat a teen arrested for marijuana use much the same way we treat a teen arrested for drunk driving? "Because arresting teens for self medicating is more harmful than arresting a teen for drunk driving. But you already knew that, Joe:from: http://pdxnorml.org/980109.html#croCASA Report On C-SPAN (McCaffrey And Califano Hint At Sea-Change
In US Policy - Incarceration For Drugs 'A Failed Social Policy') Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 07:16:52 EST
Subject: CASA Report on CSPAN
From: "Clifford Schaffer" (schaffer smartlink.net)
To: Multiple recipients of list (november-l november.org) The CASA Report press conference on their recent report is being shown
now. The four presenters at the press conference were Colson, Joseph
Califano, Barry McCaffrey, and Jeremy Travis, DOJ Charles Colson says that mandatory minimums are the most
counterproductive policy possible and that violent criminals are being
released in order to jail nonviolent people on mandatory minimums. He
also said that drugs were just as available in prisons as on the street. Items below in quotes are direct quotes. McCaffrey said: (I am here to) "stand with him (Califano) again on a CASA study"
"nearly 13 million of us use drugs regularly, nearly 4 million who are
addicted" "this is a failed social policy" "it has become clear to me that when it comes to drug treatment, the
Federal Government won't be the solution" - states will.in 20 of 23 sites more than 60 percent of adult arrestees test positive
for some drug. "Fifty percent of the meth users who seek treatment do so because they
felt it causes criminal behavior." (paraphrasing) we certainly must have treatment in the criminal justice
system "State of Delaware has some incredibly innovative programs." While Colson talked a lot about the mandatory minimums, McCaffrey didn't
mention them. McCaffrey's main point was more treatment in prison. Califano talked a lot about the increase in prisoners, saying that soon,
5 percent of all whites, and about 25 percent of blacks would spend some
time in prison. He said that more than one million people are in prison
because of drug or alcohol related crime. "One of every 144 Americans
adults is behind bars for a crime in which alcohol or drugs are
indicated." He made it clear that we were spending a lot of money doing
it and that most of the increase in the prison population was related to
drugs. Califano consistently DID NOT break out the difference between illegal
drugs and alcohol, in most of the charts. Then he said,
"We didn't understand it until we did this study, but the number one
drug implicated in violent crime in America is alcohol." He went
through charts on the relation of violent crime and drugs, showing
alcohol way ahead of cocaine and heroin. *** Marijuana was not on the
charts. ***
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Comment #18 posted by CorvallisEric on May 21, 2005 at 18:50:20 PT

A very different view from law enforcement
Quoting (somewhat selectively and unfairly) from http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/easeup.htm Published: Sunday, October 10, 2004 Copyright: 2004 The Oregonian:...At the same time the Bush administration furiously denies marijuana has any medical value whatsoever. Amid this chatter there's been a deafening silence from the administration -- until last week, that is -- when it comes to a drug that's destroying families, lives and communities: methamphetamine. We need to reprioritize our fight against dangerous drugs and raise the bar on methamphetamine while reducing the legal stigma of marijuana, recognizing it has limited medical use. ...In an effort to meet the president's goal of reducing illegal drug consumption by 10 percent during his first term, the administration has gone for volume. Since marijuana is used by a far greater number of people than the so-called "hard drugs" (methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine), it's much easier to reduce overall statistical drug use by achieving even a small decrease in marijuana users. ...Equating marijuana with methamphetamine is folly. By lumping all drugs into the same category we risk losing our credibility with young people. Teens will likely experiment with marijuana and, when they don't become dope fiends out of "Reefer Madness," assume there's no harm in "chasing the dragon" every once in a while by smoking heroin. ...Joshua Marquis is the Clatsop County district attorney in Astoria. He's worked for nearly 30 years in Oregon's criminal justice system as a defense lawyer and a prosecutor.
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Comment #17 posted by FoM on May 21, 2005 at 18:24:21 PT

CorvallisEric
Thank you for the extended article. I thought it should be archived so we will have it for referencing. http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread20713.shtml
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Comment #16 posted by CorvallisEric on May 21, 2005 at 17:58:20 PT

More Califano
Some papers had additional paragraphs in the same article.Most kids who smoke cigarettes will not smoke marijuana, but a 2003 survey of 12- to 17-year-olds, conducted by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University, reveals that teens who smoke cigarettes are much likelier than non-smokers to try marijuana; they are also likelier to become regular marijuana users.... and ...Years ago, while I was visiting Los Angeles, then-Mayor Dick Riordan told me that in his city kids were arrested an average of nine times for possession of marijuana before anything happened to them. I have since discovered that this situation is common in many American communities. Most kids do not even get a slap on the wrist the first few times they're nabbed for smoking a joint. As a result, we let them sink deeper and deeper into drug use, with its dangers to their physical, mental and emotional development and its risk of addiction.I am not suggesting that we put kids in jail for smoking pot. But why not treat a teen arrested for marijuana use much the same way we treat a teen arrested for drunk driving? Why not require kids arrested for marijuana possession to attend classes to learn about the dangers of marijuana use and to develop some skills (and the will) to decline the next time they are offered the drug? The incentive to attend such classes would be the threat of the alternative: for the first couple of arrests, loss of a driver's license or a fine stiff enough to hurt; for continued use, a few nights in a local prison. Getting kids to attend sessions designed to discourage their marijuana use would give some practical meaning to increased law enforcement and would bring reductions in drug use more in line with increased arrest rates.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/17/AR2005051700876.html
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Comment #15 posted by mayan on May 21, 2005 at 17:48:44 PT

JAIL
Califano can't justify putting folks who harm nobody else's person or property in JAIL!!!Reach Joseph A. Califano Jr., president of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University and secretary of health, education and welfare from 1977 to 1979, via -- http://www.casacolumbia.org/Perhaps we should enlighten this dolt?
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Comment #14 posted by Toker00 on May 21, 2005 at 16:46:33 PT

It's time to organize our defense.
I believe we should use something on the lines of a  constitutional and religious defense. Constitutional grounds because our Constitutional Republic allows for protection from a cruel majority. In this case, the Federal Government and everyone who judges Cannabis to be harmful without evidence. True democracy is simply mob rule. We are protected from that. Religous grounds because there is no denying Cannabis was created by God and Given To Us On The First Page of The Bible by the creator. Since we have certain unallienable rights given to us by God and not given nor to be taken away by any government, we have a solid religious defense, IMO. Sould we all register as Cannabists and seek protection from a cruel majority? Can we file a law suit with the ACLU or any organization which protects minorities? What would be the criteria for registering as a Cannabist? Anyone who has used Cannabis for medicine or religious sacrement and knows it's safety and benefits? Anyone who uses as a safe alternative to booze and hard drugs? The sick who use as a safe alternative to the harmful pharmacueticals? Anyone at all who can prove they have used and no harm has come to them? How about everyone who has a Cannabis conviction and the only provable harm is the harm caused from the conviction and not from Cannabis? Even with all these Cannabists, we would still be a minority and guaranteed protection. We should have no problem proving the cruelty of Cannabis Prohibition. When they say Cannabis prohibion, they are including the prohibition of Cannabists. Genocide, in my opinion, and defendable by the Constitution. There is no amendment to that sacred document that makes Cannabis possession and use an exception from the unalianable rights of persuit of LIFE, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of HAPPINESS. Freedom of Religion provides protection for Cannabis as a religious sacrement. Maybe we can establish a Church of Cannabis, the Tree of Life. A plant of reknown will be raised up in the end times to heal all nations. That plant is CANNABIS! Peace. Legalize, then Revolutionize!(medicine)(energy)(nutrition)    
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Comment #13 posted by CorvallisEric on May 21, 2005 at 16:42:22 PT

Bipartisan illusions
Rudolph Giuliani's success in slashing New York City's crime rate by, among other things, going after low-level street crimes such as smoking and selling small amounts of marijuana inspired many other mayors to follow suit.I believe most people called it the "Broken Windows" policy, not the "Pot Smoking" policy. "Among other things" are a drop in violent crime throughout most of the country during Giuliani's term caused by demography and temporary prosperity and in spite of dire predictions in the early-1990's about "superpredators" by William Bennett and John Walters (the book "Body Count").When President Bush announced in 2002 a goal of reducing illegal drug use by 10 percent in two years and 25 percent in five years, he knew he had to focus on cutting marijuana use. Eliminating all other illegal drug use combined would not even get him close to his highly touted objective.That's right. When petty equals grand and there's "no such thing as a soft drug," then all the mayhem caused by meth and coke and their criminal markets (plus the heroin market) is no more important than trivially cutting pot use. When a quarter of mostly-casual, mostly-nonabusing pot smokers are scared away or imprisoned, then the bipartisan war cabal can proudly beat its chest and proclaim victory. And all they really did was defeat the easiest and by-far least important target.I'm fairly certain Califano is a Democrat. Most other current big-name drug warriers seem to be Republican.
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Comment #12 posted by Hope on May 21, 2005 at 16:24:49 PT

A mistake on my part...
Andrea Barthwell had nothing to do with it. Forgive me.I had a download about that "Guardian" business from the Behavior site come up at the same time, for some reason, as a download about Barthwell. I thought what I was reading had been written by her. I've accused her of something she had nothing to do with.
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Comment #11 posted by Sam Adams on May 21, 2005 at 16:02:40 PT

I agree, he's funny
"When President Bush announced in 2002 a goal of reducing illegal drug use by 10 percent in two years and 25 percent in five years, he knew he had to focus on cutting marijuana use"Damn straight - can't be doing "wake & bake" before those Joint Chiefs of Staff meetings anymore...he had to cut back.....
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Comment #10 posted by Hope on May 21, 2005 at 15:43:03 PT

Global Warming
I've been researching it, too. It's basically about a "curriculum" that is used in PRISONS! It's designed by a company or "ministry" called NLBM or NewLife Behavior Ministries. Researching the "curriculum" at their site http://www.nlbm.org/NLBCurriculum.htm
lead me to document by BARTHWELL herself. It was about what she called "our" children. That would be ones that the courts have taken from their parents.
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Comment #9 posted by global_warming on May 21, 2005 at 15:23:39 PT

More News, as the plot thickens

Religion, Science and Substance Abuse
By Joseph A. Califano Jr.If ever the sum is greater than the parts, it is in combining the power of God, religion and spirituality with the power of science and professional medicine to prevent and treat substance abuse and addiction. That’s the good news from So Help Me God: Substance Abuse, Religion and Spirituality, the two-year study recently released by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.The bad news is how few clergy receive any substance abuse training and how many psychiatrists and other health care providers refuse to take advantage of the power of spirituality and religion to prevent and treat this disease. The best news is that the Vatican has stepped up to the plate with a manual setting out the church’s responsibility in preventing and treating drug abuse.The United States has a unique tradition of religious commitment: almost all our people profess a belief in God and 92 percent affiliate with a particular religion. An astonishing array of churches and cathedrals, synagogues, Islamic centers and mosques, Hindu and Buddhist temples enrich our states.America is the most medically advanced nation in the world. Cities across the country house the most sophisticated hospital and health care complexes and equipment. Our physician training has given us the finest medical professionals. Yet clergy and physicians, religion and science are too often ships passing in the night. When we separate the worlds of medicine and spirituality, we deny a host of individuals help that may aid their recovery and ease their pain—especially with respect to substance abuse and addiction. One need only listen to the eloquent voices of recovery as they speak about the role of God and spirituality in their own healing processes.------Looks like they have gotten control of how a human being is going to find God. They will tell you when you have found God, they are experts at knowing if you have found God or some mental distraction.Joh 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. 
http://www.americamagazine.org/gettext.cfm?articleTypeID=1&textID=1477&issueID=3
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Comment #8 posted by RadicalRuss on May 21, 2005 at 15:17:45 PT:

Know Your DEA Federal Drug Scheduling
How many states have medical marijuana? 10.How many states have medical cocaine, medical methamphetamine, and medical PCP? 50.Learn more at http://www.RadicalRuss.net
Know Your DEA Federal Drug Scheduling
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Comment #7 posted by global_warming on May 21, 2005 at 13:59:03 PT

Don't be left out
 What's NewCASACONFERENCE: So Help Me God (II): Substance Abuse, Religion and SpiritualityBecause of unprecedented demand and intense interest in the September 2004 CASACONFERENCE, So Help Me God: Substance Abuse, Religion and Spirituality, CASA will present So Help Me God (II): Substance Abuse, Religion and Spirituality on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 at CASA's Zena and Michael A. Wiener Conference Center in New York City. The CASACONFERENCE will introduce new topics and cutting-edge research, and build on the findings of our first conference by updating attendees on social, educational, governmental and scientific progress at the intersection of substance abuse, religion and spirituality. As always, this conference will feature nationally recognized experts and leading journalists. The schedule is in formation now, but the following participants are confirmed: Jim Towey, Director, White-House of Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (Keynote); Timothy Johnson, M.D., Medical Editor, ABC News and Author, Finding God in the Questions (2004) (Panel Moderator); Elizabeth Cohen, M.P.H. Medical Correspondent, CNN (Panel Moderator); Sister Lee Anne Farrell, SSND, Vice President of Women's Services, Guest House, Inc. and a person in recovery (Panelist); Rev. Walter Modrys, SJ, Pastor, Church of Saint Ignatius Loyola, New York City (Panelist). Our last conference sold out in weeks! Don't be left out this time! You can lock in your registration and become a part of this groundbreaking conference by registering online or via mail-in form NOW!..."------Hope you all are having a good weekend..
Joseph A. Califano
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Comment #6 posted by Toker00 on May 21, 2005 at 13:55:45 PT

Avoiding the Answer that is hiding in plain sight.
"USA -- The increased potency of today's marijuana and the greater knowledge we have of the dangers of using it justify the increased attention that law enforcement is giving to illegal possession of the drug." What greater knowledge? Or, greater knowlegde of what? When objective testing of a substance is denied, how is knowledge gained? If you have no knowledge, how can that be greater than something you don't have? Repeal Cannabis Prohibition!"But the disappointing reality is that a nearly 30 percent increase in marijuana arrests does not translate into a comparable reduction in use of the drug. Something more is needed."No, the dissappointing reality is that your increased arrests is only an increase in the damage prohibition causes. But I agree more is needed. More objective testing of Cannabis, and opinions formed from the results of that testing, not NIDA or DEA or FDA or FBI or CIA or ONDCP or DRUG FREE AMERICA or DARE or from any other propagandist organizations formed to protect the corporate interests and who conspire to keep Cannabis illegal. Where are the people who are against Cannabis who have actually experienced personal use and/or have intimate knowledge of the plant? They are not saying look, after years of use and gathering information on this plant, you're right. It's dangerous and should be prohibited. No. They are US. The ones who fight the lies that are commin out a yore mouths! We know the truth about Cannabis and will continue countering your lies, and growing our movement to Repeal Cannabis Prohibition!"The issue of marijuana use ( and most illegal drug use ) is all about kids. If we can get kids not to smoke marijuana before they reach age 21, they are virtually certain never to do so. So let's do more than trumpet the arrest rate. Let's focus on discouraging children and teens from getting involved with the drug in the first place."So the issue is not about possession of the plant by adults, but keeping the children safe? And you actually admit this is the Entire Issue? No problem then. Here's a solution for the problem with the kiddies. Repeal Prhibition! Protect them from Cannabis like you protect them from Alchol! Allow Adults to use Cannabis and children to be protected by taxing and regulating Cannabis, removing it from the black market where your kids will, not may, but Will find it, and Easily. Along with the really dangerous drugs you admittedly are less worried about than Cannabis,(That's like Bush saying he is not worried about Ben Laden) which has never killed or sickened anyone who knows how to use it and doesn't abuse it, while thousands die of the poison powders you are no longer worried about. Not to mention the deaths caused by prescription drugs, because they are Legal. Or in other words, PROFITABLE. Answer: Repeal Cannabis Prhibition!"Availability is the mother of use, so doing a far better job of reducing availability is high on the list. Beyond that -- and recognizing that reducing demand is key to that goal -- we should use the increased arrest rate as an opportunity to discourage use"Duh...Again, because there is a black market supply, and even after thirty years of pumping our tax dollars into law enforcement agencies incapable of eliminating it, and in reality not even putting a dent in it, you have no defense of continueing this failed policy. Want to eliminate the availability of Black Market Cannabis (Of course you don't want us to mention the poison powders, since they don't worry you any more) and protect your children? Repeal Cannabis Prohibition!Peace. Legalize, then Revolutionize!(medicine)(energy)(nutrition)
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Comment #5 posted by global_warming on May 21, 2005 at 13:47:06 PT

This Guy Is Funny
"Owens displayed a bag containing Honaker's stomach contents at a Friday press conference. The bag contained several, clearly discernible white flecks that Owens identified as cocaine."Examination of X-Rays taken of Owens head clearly showed the presence of one little bone, which was identified to be a prohibitionist bone.I reckon that Owen cannot understand that it was him who made that 21 year old man swallow that poison, it was his prohibitionist belief that killed that 21 year old man.Chests were full when Owen said.."The lesson in this case is for the people who are going to deal with drugs, if you're caught, take your licks,"I assume that he was not talking about Squibb or Merck.bah
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Comment #4 posted by FoM on May 21, 2005 at 13:10:22 PT

Just a Comment
I saw an article yesterday that said a young man died from swallowing marijuana. I knew it wasn't true and wanted to wait until an accurate report was released. Here it is.***Coroner: Cocaine Caused Death By Mark Hansel, Post Staff ReporterMay 21, 2005 
A man who died while in Cincinnati police custody Thursday ingested a deadly amount of cocaine just before being arrested, according to Hamilton County Coroner, Odell Owens.Stanley Honaker, 21, of Winton Place, initially told police he had swallowed marijuana, but an autopsy revealed a bag of cocaine in his stomach."The lesson in this case is for the people who are going to deal with drugs, if you're caught, take your licks," said Owens. "Don't swallow bags of cocaine because what happens is the plastic is gonna rupture, the cocaine goes into your stomach and you're going to get cocaine toxicity."Owens displayed a bag containing Honaker's stomach contents at a Friday press conference. The bag contained several, clearly discernible white flecks that Owens identified as cocaine.The death is the second in a week attributed to cocaine toxicity.At the same press conference, Owens said Vernon Young of Union Township, died from cocaine toxicity on May 13. Young, 31, was also Tased twice by Union Township Police, but Owens said the Tasing was not a factor in his death."Both of these cases were due to cocaine toxicity, nothing to do with any police misconduct," said Owens.Cincinnati Police Spokesman Lt. Kurt Byrd said police are seeing more cases of suspects swallowing drugs to avoid arrest. "The majority of our injuries to prisoners are occurring as a result of ingestions," said Byrd. "No drug charge is worth taking your life over."Byrd's warning came too late for Honaker.Honaker was stopped by police on Kings Run Drive for a routine traffic stop. With a history of drug arrests and an active warrant, police speculate Honaker chose to swallow the drugs rather than face another charge.Owens said police saw him take a drink of clear liquid, just before he was arrested, possibly to wash down the drugs. While in the patrol car Honaker became distressed and began sweating profusely. A cruiser cam tape revealed Honaker denied swallowing cocaine. "I ate weed, man," Honaker said on the tape. He then went into convulsions.The officers immediately called for assistance, and Honaker was taken to University Hospital by paramedics, where he died.Copyright 2005 The Cincinnati Posthttp://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050521/NEWS01/505210351

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Comment #3 posted by runderwo on May 21, 2005 at 13:07:04 PT

hmm
"When President Bush announced in 2002 a goal of reducing illegal drug use by 10 percent in two years and 25 percent in
five years, he knew he had to focus on cutting marijuana use."If the goal is to reduce illegal drug use, then the obvious solution seems to be to legalize cannabis since it is the most used illegal drug.
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Comment #2 posted by Happyplant on May 21, 2005 at 11:39:12 PT

WHAT CRIME
USING MARIJUANA IS NOT A CRIME. Murder is a crime, rape is a crime, child abuse is a crime. LYING TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC IS A CRIME.
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Comment #1 posted by observer on May 21, 2005 at 10:58:59 PT

propaganda analysis
[4]
Rudolph Giuliani's success in slashing New York City's crime rate by, among other things, going after low-level street crimes such as smoking and selling small amounts of marijuana inspired many other mayors to follow suit.

(Sentence 4) re: "crime", "crimes" - Drugs, the prohibitionist explains, are a wicked bane on modern man. Why if not for the noble drug war (i.e. jailing drug users), exclaims the propagandist, then people will run amok, and violence, death, psychosis, and plague shall cover the land. (Madness,Crime,Violence,Illness (propaganda theme 2) http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/pg/propaganda/theme2.htm#2 ) 
 
 
[5]
When President Bush announced in 2002 a goal of reducing illegal drug use by 10 percent in two years and 25 percent in five years, he knew he had to focus on cutting marijuana use.

(Sentence 5) re: "illegal drug use", "drug use" - The rhetoric of prohibition will assume that "use" and "abuse" are identical. (Use is Abuse (propaganda theme 4) http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/pg/propaganda/theme4.htm#alluseisabuse ) 
 
 
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Eliminating all other illegal drug use combined would not even get him close to his highly touted objective.

(Sentence 6) re: "illegal drug use", "drug use" - "This strategy equates the use and abuse of drugs and implies that it is impossible to use the particular drug or drugs in question without physical, mental, and moral deterioration." [W.White,1979] (Use is Abuse (propaganda theme 4) http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/pg/propaganda/theme4.htm#alluseisabuse ) 
 
 
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Even though marijuana use has leveled off or waned slightly over the past several years, the number of children and teenagers in treatment for marijuana dependence and abuse has jumped 142 percent since 1992, and the number of teen emergency room admissions in which marijuana is implicated is up almost 50 percent since 1999.

(Sentence 7) re: "marijuana use" - Prohibitionists try to hammer in the idea that 'all use is abuse.' The rhetoric of prohibition needs to deny that many people can use currently illegal drugs without abusing them. (Use is Abuse (propaganda theme 4) http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/pg/propaganda/theme4.htm#alluseisabuse ) re: "children", "teenagers", "teen" - "Chemicals have long been inextricably linked in prohibitionist literature with the ... corruption of young people." [W.White,1979] (Children Corrupted (propaganda theme 5) http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/pg/propaganda/theme5.htm#5 ) 
 
 
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Though alcohol remains by far the teen substance of choice, teens are three times likelier to be in treatment for marijuana than for alcohol (and six times likelier to be in treatment for marijuana than for all other illegal drugs combined).

(Sentence 8) re: "teen", "teens" - Prohibitionists are champions of "the child", "kids", "children", etc. Only continued or increased punishments of all adults caught using "drugs" will send the correct "message" to children. (Children Corrupted (propaganda theme 5) http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/pg/propaganda/theme5.htm#5 ) 
 
 
[10]
Recent studies indicate that it increases the likelihood of depression, schizophrenia and other serious mental health problems.

(Sentence 10) re: "problems", "depression", "schizophrenia" - The rhetoric of prohibition asserts that insanity, crime, and violence are caused by drugs, or are controlled by prohibition. (Madness,Crime,Violence,Illness (propaganda theme 2) http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/pg/propaganda/theme2.htm#2 ) 
 
 
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Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, has repeatedly expressed concern about the adverse effect of marijuana on the brain, a matter of particular moment for youngsters whose brains are still in the development stage.

(Sentence 11) re: "Drug Abuse" - Prohibitionist propagandists repeatedly assert that "use is abuse." Details about "using" as opposed to "abusing" drugs are ignored. (Use is Abuse (propaganda theme 4) http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/pg/propaganda/theme4.htm#alluseisabuse ) 
 
 
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The issue of marijuana use ( and most illegal drug use ) is all about kids.

(Sentence 12) re: "illegal drug use", "drug use", "marijuana use" - Prohibition propaganda claims that all use of any "drug" is abuse. (Use is Abuse (propaganda theme 4) http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/pg/propaganda/theme4.htm#alluseisabuse ) 
 
 
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If we can get kids not to smoke marijuana before they reach age 21, they are virtually certain never to do so.

(Sentence 13) re: "kids" - "Nothing can so excite an adult population as can anything which appears to threaten their own children." [W.White,1979] (Children Corrupted (propaganda theme 5) http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/pg/propaganda/theme5.htm#5 ) 
 
 
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Let's focus on discouraging children and teens from getting involved with the drug in the first place.

(Sentence 15) re: "children", "teens" - "Since the Harrison Act of 1914, the user and the seller of illicit drugs have both been characterized as evil, criminal, insane, and always in search of new victims, the victims are characterized as young children." [W.White,1979] (Children Corrupted (propaganda theme 5) http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/pg/propaganda/theme5.htm#5 ) 
 
 

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