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"Weeds" and Marijuana Chic

by L. Brent Bozell III
July 7, 2008

The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy reported last
month that a teenager who has been depressed in the past year was more
than twice as likely to have used marijuana than teenagers who have
not reported being depressed (25 percent compared with 12 percent).
The study said marijuana use increased the risk of developing mental
disorders by 40 percent. So much for the "harmless" nature of pot.

There are more worrisome statistics still. The 2006 National Survey on
Drug Use and Health found that among Americans age 12 and older there
were 14.8 million current users of marijuana and 4.2 million Americans
classified with dependency or abuse of marijuana. Addiction is a real
threat. Another 2006 report found 16.1 percent of drug treatment
admissions were for marijuana as the primary drug of abuse. This
compares to six percent in 1992.

TMC1982@gmail.com wrote in
news:911ceba5-55f5-4f34-806d-5b8a0c46764e@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com:

I think a lot of why we're seeing more about cannabis and its acceptance
in our society stems from ( in part ) a backlash by society to the Big
drug companies that have been slowly getting the entire population
addicted to oxycontin, and these sort of narcotic pills. People have
reallzed that those pills are about as equal as sticking a needle of
heroin in your arm. except that when it is prescribed and comes in a
pill form, the addictive association is not made, many cannot connect
the dots that link these narcotics. But now the word is out, and people
know that these frigging pills can easily kill by overdose and are
deadly addictive. so, the alternative of cannabis is very attractive
because no one ever died from overdosing on cannabis, and cannabis is
NOT physically addictive...