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A FINAL NOTE
The intent of this document was to clarify any misconceptions
about marijuana. We hope we have relayed to you the importance
of understanding all the facts and making clear, informed decisions
about your future, the future of our youth, and of our society
as a whole.
For more information about marijuana and other drugs of abuse,
please visit our websites: www.DEA.gov; our teen website, written
for teens, www.JustThinkTwice.com; and our parent website, written
for parents, caregivers, and educators: www.GetSmartAboutDrugs.com.
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summary: drug_related = 100%, drugwar_propaganda = 100%
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asserted: $drug_related at 100% ($illegal_drugs $prohibition_agency)
asserted: $drugwar_propaganda at 100% ($propaganda_theme3 $propaganda_theme5 $propaganda_theme4)
asserted: $propaganda_theme3 at 75% ("society" "our society"), 3 hits
asserted: $use_is_abuse at 100% ("drugs of abuse" "abuse"), 2 hits
asserted: $propaganda_theme4 at 100% ($use_is_abuse)
asserted: $propaganda_theme5 at 70% ("teen" "teens" "youth" "parent" "parents"), 5 hits
asserted: $illegal_drugs at 100% ("drugs of abuse" $cannabis), 1 hits
asserted: $drugs at 95% ($various_drugs)
asserted: $prohibition_agency at 70% ("DEA"), 1 hits
asserted: $plants at 100% ($cannabis)
asserted: $intoxicant at 100% ($cannabis)
asserted: $cannabis at 100% ("marijuana"), 2 hits
asserted: $various_drugs at 95% ("drugs"), 2 hits
asserted: $youth at 70% ($propaganda_theme5)
Sentence-By-Sentence Analysis
(2) We hope we have relayed to you the importance of understanding all the facts and making clear, informed decisions about your future, the future of our youth, and of our society as a whole .
re: "society", "our society" -
Prohibitionists assert that the survival of the community,
society, the nation, the world, etc. are at stake.
Only continued and increased punishments for drug users
can be contemplated, because, say prohibitionists, society
will otherwise fall apart.
(Survival of Society (propaganda theme 3) )
re: "youth" -
Prohibitionists forever claim that children are corrupted by drugs,
and this is why adult users must be punished harshly.
(Children Corrupted (propaganda theme 5) )
(3) For more information about marijuana and other drugs of abuse, please visit our websites: www.DEA.gov; our teen website, written for teens, www.JustThinkTwice.com; and our parent website, written for parents, caregivers, and educators: www.GetSmartAboutDrugs.com. 36 ...... .
re: "drugs of abuse", "abuse" -
"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) )
re: "teen", "teens", "parent", "parents" -
Prohibitionists play on parental fears by exaggerating the dangers
to children of drugs. Adults must be jailed (reason prohibitionists),
because kids might be corrupted with drugs.
(Children Corrupted (propaganda theme 5) )
re: "DEA" -
Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
-- Bertrand Russell
MAPInc Bookmarks:
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/pot.htm (Cannabis)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/youth.htm (Youth)
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EXP - explicit prohibition propaganda (explicit_propaganda)
GRP - hated group (propaganda_theme1)
MAD - madness, violence, illness (propaganda_theme2)
SOC - survival of society (propaganda_theme3)
USE - gateway, use is abuse (propaganda_theme4)
KID - children (propaganda_theme5)
WAR - demonize, war, epidemic (propaganda_theme6)
TOT - total prohibition (propaganda_theme7)
DIS - dissent opposed (propaganda_theme8)
