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DANGERS TO NON USERS: DELINQUENT BEHAVIORS
Marijuana use is strongly associated with juvenile crime. o In
a 2008 paper entitled Non-Medical Marijuana III: Rite of Passage
or Russian Roulette, CASA reported that in 2006 youth who had
been arrested and booked for breaking the law were four times
likelier than those who were never arrested to have used marijuana
in the past year.136
o According to CASA in their report on Criminal Neglect: Substance
Abuse, Juvenile Justice and the Children Left Behind, youth who
use marijuana are likelier than those who do not to be arrested
and arrested repeatedly. The earlier an individual begins to use
marijuana, the likelier he or she is to be arrested.
o Marijuana is known to contribute to delinquent and aggressive
behavior. A June 2007 report released by ONDCP reveals that
teenagers who use drugs are more likely to engage in violent and
delinquent behavior. Moreover, early use of marijuana, the most
commonly used drug among teens, is a warning sign for later
criminal behavior. Specifically, research shows that the instances
of physically attacking people, stealing property, and destroying
property increase in direct proportion to the frequency with
which teens smoke marijuana.137
In a report titled The Relationship between Alcohol, Drug Use,
and Violence among Students, the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions
of America (CADCA) reported that according to the 2006 Pride
Surveys, during the 2005-2006 school year:
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o Of those students who report carrying a gun to school during
the 2005-2006 year, 63.9 percent report also using marijuana.
o Of those students who reported hurting others with a weapon
at school, 68.4 percent had used marijuana.
o Of those students who reported being hurt by a weapon at
school, 60.3 percent reported using marijuana.
o Of those students who reported threatening someone with a
gun, knife, or club or threatening to hit, slap, or kick someone,
27 percent reported using marijuana.
o Of those students who reported any trouble with the police,
39 percent also reported using marijuana.138
o According to ONDCP, the incidence of youth physically attacking
others, stealing, and destroying property increased in proportion
to the number of days marijuana was smoked in the past year.139
o ONDCP reports that marijuana users were twice as likely as
non-users to report they disobeyed school rules.140
o Youths aged 12 to 17 who had engaged in fighting or other
delinquent behaviors were more likely than other youths to have
used illicit drugs in the past month. In 2012 past month illicit
drug use was reported by 17.5 percent of youths who had gotten
into a serious fight at school or work compared with 7.6 percent
of those who had not engaged in fighting at school or work, and
by 43.8 percent of those who had stolen or tried to steal something
worth over $50 in the past year compared with 8.2 percent who
had not attempted or engaged in such theft.141
summary: drug_related = 100%, drugwar_propaganda = 100%
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Sentence-By-Sentence Analysis
(2) The earlier an individual begins to use marijuana, the likelier he or she is to be arrested. o Marijuana is known to contribute to delinquent and aggressive behavior .
re: "use marijuana" -
Prohibitionists try to hammer in the idea that 'all use is abuse.'
The rhetoric of prohibition needs to deny that many people
can use currently illegal drugs without abusing them.
(Use is Abuse (propaganda theme 4) )
(3) A June 2007 report released by ONDCP reveals that teenagers who use drugs are more likely to engage in violent and delinquent behavior .
re: "violent" -
Prohibition propaganda rarely misses an opportunity to link
crime, violence, and insanity with "drugs". The propagandist insinuates
that prohibited drugs cause evil, and if it weren't for "drugs"
bad things would not exist.
(Madness Crime Violence Illness (propaganda theme 2) )
re: "teenagers" -
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: -
Power is addictive, and it corrupts.
And those who have power fear losing it.
-- Richard A. Viguerie
(4) Moreover, early use of marijuana, the most commonly used drug among teens, is a warning sign for later criminal behavior .
re: "criminal" -
It is prohibition, claim prohibitionists, that saves people from drug crazed,
whacked out, high flying drug users.
(Madness Crime Violence Illness (propaganda theme 2) )
re: "teens" -
Drug war propaganda plays on parental fears for the well being
of their kids. If drug users are not jailed, says the prohibitionist,
then your children will surely suffer.
(Children Corrupted (propaganda theme 5) )
MAPInc Bookmarks:
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/campaign.htm (ONDCP Media Campaign)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Cannabis - Medicinal)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?253 (Cannabis - Medicinal - United States)
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)
