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Group: alt.drugs.pot · Group Profile
Author: fanghornfanghorn Date: Jul 12, 2008 09:27
> http://www.mediaresearch.org/BozellColumns/entertainmentcolumn/2008/col
> 20080707.asp
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> "Weeds" and Marijuana Chic
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> by L. Brent Bozell III
> July 7, 2008
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> 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.
> Especially if they *already* *have* one - depression.
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> 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.
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So they've redefined "dependency". A pretty nebulous term at the best of
times. Pot *isn't* addictive. Addiction means your body *has* to have it
to stop from being sick - a physical connection, not mental. Heroin has
this affect, but not pot.
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> There surely are multiple reasons to explain the increasing use of
> this drug. But one reason for the trend is surely its glamorization by
> Hollywood, which thinks marijuana is a fun-and-games subject.
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Where is increase usage mentioned? only "dependency" *whatever* that's
supposed to mean.
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