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Hard "Facts" About Marijuana Grab Parents' Attention
Medical News Today | 04/23/2005

The Office of National Drug Control Policy's (ONDCP) National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign (USA) launched a new advertising campaign to provide scientific facts about marijuana risks and harms for parents of teens. Themed "Facts for Parents," the print ad campaign underscores the potency and carcinogenic content of marijuana and outlines short- and long-term consequences of marijuana use on adolescent brain development and learning. Starting today, the ads are running in The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. During the course of the next four months, they will also appear in Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Time and Smithsonian magazines.

"We've done research with parents to determine what motivates them to take an active stance about marijuana with their teens, and we discovered that many parents say they don't have the accurate information or compelling facts they need to address this issue," said John P. Walters, Director of National Drug Control Policy. "These ads give parents some hard facts that they can use to have informed conversations with their kids about the negative consequences of marijuana. When parents stay involved in their teens' lives and talk to them about the harms and risk of drugs such as marijuana, the teens are much less likely to use drugs."

According to the 17th annual Partnership Attitude Tracking Study conducted by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America (the Partnership), the number of parents who report never talking with their child about drugs has doubled in the past six years, from 6 percent in 1998 to 12 percent in 2004. Fewer than one in three teens (approximately 30 percent) say they have learned a lot about the risks of drugs at home.

"Recent research shows that today's parents are significantly less likely to be talking with their teens about drug use. In part, this is due to their lack of understanding about today's marijuana," says Roy Bostock, Chairman of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. "We hope these ads can educate parents that today's marijuana is different than the marijuana they knew as teenagers and prompt them to send a clear and consistent message that marijuana and other drug use is not acceptable."

The ads, created by BBDO Worldwide in collaboration with the Partnership and ONDCP, incorporate data from the latest scientific research that demonstrates how marijuana harms teens' minds and bodies. For example:

-- Kids who are regular marijuana users often have shortened attention spans, decreased energy and ambition, lack of judgment, high distractibility, and impaired ability to communicate and relate to others-a set of symptoms called "amotivational syndrome" by psychologists.

(LothNote: It is carefully worded to not say marijuana caused the so called "amotivational syndrome". In the National Institute of Medicine's Report, Assessing the Science Base, they found "When heavy marijuana use accompanies these symptoms [amotivational syndrome], the drug is often cited as the cause, but no convincing data demonstrate a causal relationship between marijuana smoking and these behavioral characteristics.")

-- Kids who regularly smoke marijuana often make risky decisions about driving or sex.

(LothNote: Once again there is no causal relation between marijuana and risky decisions. It is much more plausible that a person that smokes marijuana already had a risk-taking personality and may take risks in other avenues of life besides breaking the law to smoke marijuana. This has nothing to do with marijuana causing kids to make risky decisions.)

-- Using marijuana can lead to symptoms of depression and thoughts of suicide.

-- Regular marijuana use can lead to breathing problems and greater exposure to cancerous chemicals than from tobacco. In fact, one marijuana cigarette can deliver four times as much cancer-causing tar as one tobacco cigarette.

(LothNote: This statement is supposed to imply that marijuana causes cancer at 4 times the rate of tobacco, but we all know this is simply ridiculous. As the MPP noted in a recent press release, "In a 60,000-patient, 10-year study, marijuana smokers who didn't smoke cigarettes actually had a lower lung cancer rate than nonsmokers." The National Institute of Medicine has also stated there is no conclusive evidence that cannabis causes cancer.)

-- Marijuana today is more than twice as powerful on average as it was 20 years ago. It contains twice the concentration of THC, the chemical that affects the brain.

(LothNote: If marijuana is twice as powerful as it was before, then that is half as much smoke consumers have to inhale to get the desired effects. Sounds like a better deal for marijuana smokers' lungs. Yes, THC is one of the chemicals that "affects the brain" but this does not mean that marijuana damages the brain. Just as before, the same old tired rhetoric the ONDCP has been throwing around for the past few years still has no credibility.)

More information about the effects of marijuana use and its signs and symptoms, as well as advice for parents on keeping kids drug-free, can be found on the Media Campaign Web site for parents at http://www.TheAntiDrug.com. Parents can also call the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information at 1-800-788-2800 for free resources.

In 1998, with the bipartisan support of Congress and the President, ONDCP created the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, an effort designed to educate and empower youth to reject illicit drugs. Counting on an unprecedented blend of public and private partnerships, non-profit community service organizations, volunteerism, and youth-to-youth communications, the Campaign is designed to reach Americans of diverse backgrounds with effective anti-drug messages.

(LothNote: While lying to kids about the dangers of pot, some kids begin to assume that the dangers of other drugs are also exagerated. The media campaign is a complete failure all the while flushing tax payer dollars down the toilet and putting our children in real danger.)

For more information on the ONDCP National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, visit http://www.mediacampaign.org.

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troublemaker_42

Will the lies and insanity ever end? Are we doomed to a world where the government resorts to simply lying to the public to further their "cause?" I hope I live to see the day when our "Drug Czar" and our president admit to America that they've fed us BS and lies for years and years. Instead of making up "facts" about "today's" marijuana, why not concentrate on the real drug problems we have today? I, for one, have a problem when the Drug War has made it EASIER to acquire methamphetamine than it is to get marijuana. The supply of cannabis may have been slightly decreased, yes, but.....does that justify harder drugs flooding our communities instead? exactly WHO is this benefitting? I'm not a parent, but if I were, I can promise you that I'd much rather have my son or daughter smoking today's "Super Bud" than dabbling with other drugs simply because they are more available. I've seen what happens when meth becomes the drug of choice......the results are far from pretty, both because of the impact on the individual, and the impact on the community/region as a whole. Of course we shouldnt be alarmed about that meth lab the neighbors are operating.....we've got to concentrate our efforts on keeping our kids pot free. Oh the irony of the Drug War........

QuestionMark

What do you expect from this "Super-Crop" of the most lying, greedy, deceitful, hateful, and just plain stupid politicians ever to slither their way into office. Lying is easy these days, ppl just seem to eat their sh*t up. I just hope that the silent majority wake the **** up before it's too late. Lets hope there are better days ahead, we still have the Superme Court decision comig down this summer on whether or not medical MJ is legal. It's gonna be an interesting summer either way. I remember seeing a memo from a pharma lobbyist talking about how research into other drugs would cease if they had to compete with marijuana. What utter BS...

420BLAZE

I have actually seen this sh*t in the news paper. Its a picture of a hand holding two joints. I read this article with my friends and we all laughed our heads off....and we were not stoned at that. Just more BS to fill peoples heads with. Could this article effect this summers ruling. I hope not...this is a first major step to legalizing marijuana in the first place.

Savage_one

Who does it benefit? Easily answered, anyone involved directly with the "problem", ie police who arrest us alleged "criminals" to the conglamerate pharmacuetical and textile corperations who benefit in profits when they have no competition in the market. DuPont the chemical company greatly increased there profits when the ceo or "leader" was friends with the Harry Anslinger (started the anti-pot propaganda, back in the 20's-30's if i recall) because they made a new synthetic fiber or oil, but could already be easily produced with cannabis at roughly no cost of course. We could all be driving ethanol automobiles derived from cannabis itself, but oil needs to be drilled, pumped, extracted and further refined which means more money for the company's that make the drills and oil vessels etc. It's just another part of the global elite's plan to take all freedom and liberty from we the people. We need to fight back with all we've got
(couln't have picked a better topic for first post )

 

Savage_one

“There are 100,000 marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.”
– Harry Anslinger, 1937

Harry Anslinger was the man behind “reefer madness” and the keystone in the movement to move the Federal government towards fighting the “war on drugs.” In 1930, the Treasury Department founded the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, and Anslinger was the man put in charge. A position that he held with all the zeal and fanaticism of a medieval crusader.

Anslinger coined the term “marijuana” because he wanted to give cannabis an association with Mexicans, thus using racial prejudice to cause public opinion to support laws against it. Working hand-in-hand with William Randolph Hearst, Anslinger helped to create the propaganda machine that turned the tide of American opinion in favor of the drug war by feeding on racial prejudice and stereotypes.

By 1937, the first Federal law against marijuana was passed, largely due to lobbying by Anslinger, who in conjunction with DuPont gave false testimony to Congress that the American Medical Association wanted to ban marijuana, when in fact the AMA’s position was the opposite.

In 1944, the New York Academy of Medicine released a study demonstrating that marijuana did not cause violence and had positive medical benefits, contradicting Anslinger’s propaganda. As a result, the FBN banned all marijuana research in the United States.

Harry Anslinger continued his insane crusade against marijuana until 1962, when he was fired by John F. Kennedy. But at that point, the damage was done, and the Federal government was firmly committed to a war on drugs. To date, that war has cost the United States dearly in lives, property, and most important of all, freedom.

Mamabudz

Wow...they have discovered that LIES and outright FEAR MONGERING get's parent's attention!

How long did it take for them to come up with that? Well, let's see, REEFER MADNESS, the film was released in 1938...

It was such a huge hit that a new version...a Musical...is now on SHOWTIME...

That's right...marijuana...destroyer of youth and a damn fine Musical ta boot!

...but that's how I see things and I've been known to smoke pot

iGame3D

"Recent research shows that today's parents are significantly less likely to be talking with their teens about drug use. In part, this is due to their lack of understanding about today's marijuana," says Roy Bostock, Chairman of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. "We hope these ads can educate parents that today's marijuana is different than the marijuana they knew as teenagers and prompt them to send a clear and consistent message that marijuana and other drug use is not acceptable."


Lets see, these would be the D.A.R.E. Kids now growing up and having kids? This would be my generation of "DRUG FREE SCHOOL ZONES" and "WAR ON DRUGS", not talking to their kids about drugs?
Hmm I wonder why that is?

Maybe they never want to hear "Mom,dad, you lied, you not only lied but you filled my head with lies, I will never trust you again."

The only people whose attention these ads get are ignorant sheep, for which any propaganda is the supper call.


Wish I had showtime. Comcast on demand has High Times : "WEED", for free. Gonna watch it with my KID today and give her more education, even though she's a bit of a hemp industry expert at four.

king cola

1895: The Indian Hemp Drug Commission concludes that cannabis has no addictive properties, some medical uses, and a number of positive emotional and social benefits.

1898: The Spanish American War erupts. During the war, the marijuana-smoking army of Panco Villa seizes 800,000 acres of prime Mexican timberland belonging to newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst.

The timber from this land was used to manufacture newsprint for Hearst's publishing empire. Hearst begins a 30-year propaganda campaign denouncing Spaniards, Mexican-Americans and Latinos, portraying Mexicans as lazy pot-smoking layabouts

1910: The white minority in South Africa outlaws cannabis ingestion in an attempt to force blacks to stop practicing ancient Dagga religions.

1914: Congress passes the Harrison Narcotics Act, its first attempt to control recreational use of drugs.

1920 - 1940: Economic power in the United States begins to consolidate in the hands of a small number of steel, oil and munitions companies, laying the foundation of the national security state. DuPont becomes the U.S. government's primary manufacturer of munitions. DuPont later creates Rayon, the world's first synthetic fiber, from stabilized guncotton.

1925: Concerned by the high number of goof butts being smoked by off-duty servicemen in Panama, the U.S. government sponsors the Panama Canal Zone Report. The report concludes that marijuana does not pose a problem, and recommends that no criminal penalties be applied to its use or sale.

1931: Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon (head of the Mellon Bank of Pittsburgh, one of the two banks with which DuPont did business) appoints future nephew-in-law Harry J. Anslinger to head the newly-formed Federal Bureau of Narcotics.

1934: U.S. Senator Joseph Guffey of Pennsylvania attacks Harry Anslinger for making references to ginger-colored ******s on Federal Bureau of Narcotics stationary in letters circulated to department heads.

1936 - 1938: William Randolph Hearst's newspaper empire fuels a tabloid journalism propaganda campaign against marijuana. Articles with headlines such as Marihuana Makes Fiends of Boys in 30 Days; Hasheesh Goads Users to Blood-Lust create terror of the killer weed from Mexico.

Through his relentless misinformation campaign, Hearst is credited with bringing the word marijuana into the English language. In addition to fueling racist attitudes toward Hispanics, Hearst papers run articles about marijuana-crazed negroes raping white women and playing voodoo-satanic jazz music.

1936: DuPont obtains a patent license to manufacture synthetic plastic fibers from German industrial giant I.G. Farben Corporation. The patent license is obtained as part Germany's reparation payments to the United States after World War I.

A few years later, I.G. Farben manufactures deadly Zyklon-B gas, used in Nazi death camps to murder millions of Jews (along with many homosexuals and drug users). DuPont owned and financed approximately 30% of Hitler's I.G. Corps, the military-industrial backbone of the fascist Third Reich.

1937: The year the federal government outlawed cannabis

DuPont patents petrochemical manufacturing processes for making plastics, as well as pollution-heavy sulfate/sulfite processes for producing wood pulp. For the next 50 years, these processes are responsible for 80% of DuPont's industrial output.

--In its 1937 Annual Report, DuPont informs stockholders that the company anticipates radical changes from the revenue raising power of government... converted into an instrument for forcing acceptance of sudden new ideas of industrial and social reorganization.

April 14, 1937: The Treasury Department secretly introduces its marihuana tax bill through the House Ways and Means Committee, bypassing more appropriate venues. Committee chairman Robert L. Doughton, a key Congressional ally of DuPont, rubber-stamps the bill.

Spring 1937: Congress holds hearings on the Marijuana Tax Act. Dr. James Woodward, representing the American Medical Association, testifies that the law could deny the world a potential medicine.

Cannabis was already prescribed for dozens of common ailments, and medical researchers were just beginning to explore the therapeutic benefits of the numerous active ingredients in marijuana. Woodward said that AMA doctors were wholly unaware that the killer weed from Mexico was actually cannabis. We cannot understand yet, Mr. Chairman, why this bill should have been prepared in secret for two years without any intimation, even to the profession, that it was being prepared, Woodward testifies.

FBN commissioner Harry Anslinger and the Ways and Means Committee quickly denounce Woodward and the AMA, which already had an adversarial relationship with the Roosevelt administration.

December 1937: The Marijuana Tax Act is signed into law, initiating 60 years of cannabis prohibition and annihilating a multi-billion dollar industry. DuPont and other synthetic materials manufacturers reap vast profits by filling the void conveniently left by the criminalization of industrial hemp.

1937 - 1939: Under Harry Anslinger, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics prosecutes 3,000 doctors for illegally prescribing cannabis-derived medications. In 1939, the American Medical Association reached an agreement with Anslinger, and over the following decade, only three doctors are prosecuted.

February 1938: Popular Mechanics describes hemp as the new billion dollar crop. The article was actually written in the spring of 1937, before cannabis was criminalized. Also in February 1938, Mechanical Engineering calls hemp the most profitable and desirable crop that can be grown.

1941: Popular Mechanics introduces Henry Ford's plastic car, manufactured from and fueled by cannabis. Hoping to free his company from the grasp of the petroleum industry, Ford illegally grew cannabis for years after the federal ban.

1942: The Japanese invasion of the Philippines cuts off the U.S. supply of Manila hemp. The U.S. government immediately distributes 400,000 pounds of cannabis seeds to farmers from Wisconsin to Kentucky.

Just four short years after cannabis was outlawed as the assassin of youth, the government requires farmers to attend showings of the USDA pro-cannabis classic, Hemp for Victory.

Also in 1942: Harry Anslinger is appointed to a top-secret committee charged with finding a truth serum for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor of the Central Intelligence Agency (which, in later years, investigated the applications of psychedelic drugs for mind control purposes).

The group picks a cannabis-derived form of hashish oil as their truth serum of choice. In 1943, the committee abandoned the idea because test subjects tended to laugh hysterically and get the munchies rather than spill the beans.

1943 - 1948: Harry Anslinger orders all Federal Bureau of Narcotics agents to conduct surveillance and keep files on marijuana crimes by jazz and swing musicians.

However, Anslinger orders his agents not to bust them immediately -- he instead envisions a gigantic nationwide bust of all pot-smoking jazz and swing musicians, simultaneously.

FBN agents keep constant surveillance on various low life such as Thelonius Monk, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and many more.

Luckily, the bust never goes down: Anslinger's slightly more sane superior at the Treasury Department, Assistant Secretary Foley, hears of the plan and writes to Anslinger, Mr. Foley disapproves!


1944: New York Mayor LaGuardia's Marijuana Commission concludes that there is no link between cannabis and violence, instead citing beneficial effects of marijuana.

Harry Anslinger goes berserk, denouncing Mayor LaGuardia and threatening doctors with prison terms should they dare to carry out independent research on cannabis.

1948: Harry Anslinger testifies before a red-baiting Congress that marijuana causes users to become peaceful, pacifistic zombies. Anslinger warned that the Communists might use marijuana to weaken the fighting spirit of American troops during wartime.

This was a complete reversal of earlier testimony; in 1937, Anslinger had testified to Congress that Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankind. Ironically, Anslinger later writes in his autobiography, The Murderers, that for years, he illegally supplied Senator Joseph McCarthy with morphine.

It was necessary, you understand, so that the Communists would not be able to blackmail McCarthy in a moment of drug-dependent weakness

1961: Harry Anslinger heads the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Drugs Convention, which issues the United Nations Single Convention Treaty on Narcotics.

Intended to eradicate marijuana use within 25 years, the Single Convention Treaty removes the issue of legal classification of cannabis from citizens of the United States.

Reversal of marijuana's criminalization on a global level now requires agreement among all 108 signatory nations. According to the U.S. Supreme Court's 1920 ruling in Missouri vs. Holland, treaties with foreign nations take precedence over domestic legislation.

1962: President John F. Kennedy forces Federal Bureau of Narcotics czar Harry Anslinger into retirement after Anslinger attempts to censor the work of Professor Alfred Lindsmith, author of The Addict and the Law.

Some time after his assassination in 1963, associates of Kennedy claimed that the president used cannabis for back pain and planned to legalize marijuana during his second term.


1964: Dr. Raphael Mechoulam of the University of Tel Aviv isolates THC Delta-9, the primary active ingredient in cannabis -- and one of at least 60 compounds found in cannabis that have therapeutic value.

1967: Keith Richards and Mick Jagger are busted at Richard's home for marijuana possession.

1971: Medical World News reports that Marijuana... is probably the most potent anti-epileptic known to medicine today.

1973: Oregon takes the first steps towards decriminalization of cannabis. For the next 25 years, possession of up to one ounce of marijuana is considered the equivalent of a misdemeanor, with no criminal record for those caught in possession.

1974: Dr. Heath conducts his infamous government-funded Rhesus monkey study at Tulane University, touted for years as evidence that marijuana causes brain damage.

Dr. Heath would put an airtight gas mask on the monkey, strap it into a chair and force-toke the equivalent of 63 Columbian-strength joints over the course of five minutes. The monkeys suffered brain damage, all right -- from suffocation and carbon monoxide poisoning.

1976: The Ford Administration bans independent research and research by federal health programs on the use of natural cannabis derivatives for medicine.

Private pharmaceutical corporations are allowed to do limited no high research using only THC Delta-9, ignoring other potentially beneficial active natural ingredients.

1989: A government-funded study at the St. Louis Medical University determines that the human brain has receptor sites for THC to which no other known compounds will bind.

December 30, 1989: Ignoring evidence to the contrary, Drug Enforcement Agency Director John Lawn orders that cannabis remain on the Schedule One narcotics list, reserved for drugs which have no known medical use.

1990: As the drug war gets uglier and uglier, 390,000 American citizens are arrested on marijuana-related charges.

September 5, 1990: Los Angeles Police Chief Darryl Gates testifies before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee that casual drug users should be taken out and shot.


It was really banned because of corporations, anything to protect their investments. Can't have competition, it was more over hemp than it was marijuana, but today marijuana threatens the drug industries. Now it's more about keeping pot banned to protect the drug industries in my opinion. They wanna sell as many pills as they can

DiabloPotHead

When the bull**** hits the fan ya got blood, guts, fingas and toes! Exactly what this **** will cause, parents getting pissed at thier kids for a MOSTLY harmless substance, because they are still ignorent.

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