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MN: US AD: Can we handle the Truth about Marijuana?
Mother Jones (US)
Tuesday 01 Feb 2000 Return-Path: Received: from finch-punt-12.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.36]) by shuggie.demon.co.uk with SMTP id for Received: from punt-1.mail.demon.net by mailstore for shug@shuggie.demon.co.uk id 949462508:11:18607:11; Wed, 02 Feb 2000 03:35:08 GMT Received: from americium.baremetal.com ([209.249.155.10]) by punt-1.mail.demon.net id aa1118686; 2 Feb 2000 3:35 GMT Received: from localhost (mapinc@localhost) by americium.baremetal.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id TAA28730; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 19:34:22 -0800 Received: by americium.baremetal.com (bulk_mailer v1.5); Tue, 1 Feb 2000 19:34:22 -0800 Received: (from mapinc@localhost) by americium.baremetal.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id TAA28725 for mapnews-outgoing@mapinc.org; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 19:34:22 -0800 Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 19:34:21 -0800 Message-Id: <200002020334.TAA28717@americium.baremetal.com> From: owner-mapnews@mapinc.org (MAPNews) To: mapnews@mapinc.org Subject: MN: US AD: Can we handle the Truth about Marijuana? Sender: owner-mapnews@mapinc.org Reply-To: owner-mapnews@mapinc.org Organization: Media Awareness Project http://www.mapinc.org/lists/ Newshawk: Richard Lake Pubdate: Feb 2000 Source: Mother Jones (US) Page: 86 Contact: backtalk@mothorjones.com Address: 731 Market Street, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94103 Fax: (415) 665-6696 Website: http://mojones.com/ Note: This advertisement appears in the current issue of Mother Jones. It is part of a continuing series of ads published by the Common Sense for Drug Policy Foundation. The full page ads are easily copied - thus making excellent handouts. This text version does not do the ad justice. A better representation of this ad, and the others in the series, may be found at: http://www.csdp.org/ads/ CAN WE HANDLE THE TRUTH ABOUT MARIJUANA? MYTH: Marijuana is a gateway drug. FACT: For every 104 people who have used marijuana, there is only one regular user of cocaine and less than one heroin addict. (1) MYTH: Marijuana is addictive. FACT: Less than one percent of people who consume marijuana do so on a daily or near daily basis. An even smaller minority develop dependence on marijuana. Withdrawal symptoms, if experienced at all, are mild. (2) MYTH: Marijuana lowers motivation. FACT: For twenty five years, researchers have searched for a marijuana- induced amotivational syndrome and have failed to find it. Of course, people who are constantly intoxicated, no matter what the drug, are not likely to be productive. (3) MYTH: Higher concentrations of THC make marijuana more dangerous. FACT: There is no possibility of a fatal overdose from smoking marijuana, regardless of potency. High potency marijuana may be less harmful to the lungs because people can use less to achieve the desired effects. (4) MYTH: Marijuana causes brain damage FACT: No medical test used to determine brain damage has indicated brain damage in humans who use marijuana - even after long-term use. (5) SO, WHY DID WE ARREST 642,000 AMERICANS LAST YEAR FOR MARIJUANA OFFENCES? SOURCES: (1) Department of HHS, National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, 1997. (2) Department of HHS, National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, 1997; Jones, r.t. et al, "Clinical Relevance of Cannabis Tolerance and Dependence," Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 21:143-526 (1981). (3) Pope, H.G. et al, "Drug Use and Life Style Among College Undergraduates in 1989: A Comparison With 1969 and 1978,: American Journal of Psychiatry 147:998-001 (1990); Kandel, D. et al, "The Impact of Drug Use on Earnings; A Life-Span Perspective," Social Forces 74:243-270 (1995). (4) Department of Health and Human Services, "Marijuana and the Cannabinoids," pp., 131-44 in Drug Abuse and Drug Abuse Research, third Triennial Report to Congress from the Secretary (1991). (5) Hannerz, l and Hindmarsh, T. "Neurological and Neuroradiological Examination of Chronic Cannabis Smokers," Annals of Neurology 13:207-10 (1983); Stuve, F.A. and Straumania, J.J., "Electroencephalographic and Evoked Potential Methods in Human Marijuana Research Historical Review and Future Trends," Drug Development Research 20: 369-88 (1990). A complete discussion of the effects of marijuana is available from Marijuana Myths / Marijuana Facts: A Review of the Scientific Evidence by Lynn Zimmer, Ph.D. and John Morgan, M.D. available from Bookworld Services 1-800-444-2524. Visit Drug War Facts at: www.drugsense.org Common Sense for Drug Policy, Kevin B. Zeese President, 703-354-5694, 703-354-5695 (fax), csdp@drugsense.org __________________________________________________________________________ Distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake
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