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DANGERS OF MARIJUANA: DEPENDENCY AND TREATMENT
o "The basic rule with any drug is if the drug becomes more available
in the society, there will be more use of the drug," said Thomas
Crowley, a University of Colorado psychiatry professor and director
of the university's Division of Substance Dependence. "And as use
expands, there will be more people who have problems with the
drug."127
o A study of substance abuse treatment admissions in the U.S.
between 1998 and 2008 found that although admission rates for
alcohol treatment were declining, admission rates per 100,000
population for illicit drug use were increasing. One consistent
pattern in every region was the increase in the admission rate
for marijuana use which rose 30 percent nationally.128
o California, a national leader in 'medical' marijuana use, saw
admission for treatment for marijuana dependence more than double
over the past decade. Admissions grew from 52 admissions per
100,000 population in 1998 to 113 per 100,000 in 2008, an increase
of 117 percent.129
o '[R]esearch shows that use of [marijuana] can lead to dependence.
Some heavy users of marijuana develop withdrawal symptoms when
they have not used the drug for a period of time. Marijuana use,
in fact, is often associated with behavior that meets the criteria
for substance dependence established by the American Psychiatric
Association.'130
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o Marijuana was the illicit drug with the highest rate of past
year dependence or abuse in 2012; of the 7.3 million persons age
12 or older classified with illicit drug dependence or abuse,
4.3 million had marijuana dependence or abuse (representing 1.7
percent of the total population aged 12 or older and 58.9 percent
of all those classified with illicit drug dependence or abuse).131
o Among all ages, marijuana was the second most common illicit
drug responsible for treatment admissions in 2011 after opioids,
accounting for 18 percent of all admissions-- outdistancing
cocaine, the next most prevalent cause.132
o The proportion of admissions for marijuana as the primary
substance of abuse for persons aged 12 or older increased from
15 percent in 2001 to 18 percent in 2011.133 o Forty percent
of primary marijuana admissions were under age 20 (versus 11
percent of all admissions).134
o Twenty-five percent of primary admissions had first used
marijuana by age 12 and another 32 percent by age 14.135
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Sentence-By-Sentence Analysis
(1) DANGERS OF MARIJUANA: DEPENDENCY AND TREATMENT o "The basic rule with any drug is if the drug becomes more available in the society, there will be more use of the drug," said Thomas Crowley, a University of Colorado psychiatry professor and director of the university's Division of Substance Dependence .
re: "DANGERS", "DANGERS OF" -
Drugs, the prohibitionist explains, are a wicked bane on modern man.
If not for the noble drug war (i.e. jailing drug users), exclaims
the propagandist, then people will run amok, and violence, death, psychosis,
and plague shall cover the land.
(Madness Crime Violence Illness (propaganda theme 2) )
re: "society" -
The health of the "community" (read: government) is assured, prohibitionists
explain, because drug users are punished. Jailing drug users is thus
painted as upholding society.
(Survival of Society (propaganda theme 3) )
re: "use of the drug" -
"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) )
(2) "And as use expands, there will be more people who have problems with the drug."127 o A study of substance abuse treatment admissions in the U.S. between 1998 and 2008 found that although admission rates for alcohol treatment were declining, admission rates per 100,000 population for illicit drug use were increasing .
re: "substance abuse", "drug use", "abuse" -
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) One consistent pattern in every region was the increase in the admission rate for marijuana use which rose 30 percent nationally.128 o California, a national leader in 'medical' marijuana use, saw admission for treatment for marijuana dependence more than double over the past decade .
re: "marijuana use" -
Prohibition propaganda claims that all use of any "drug" is abuse.
(Use is Abuse (propaganda theme 4) )
(4) Admissions grew from 52 admissions per 100,000 population in 1998 to 113 per 100,000 in 2008, an increase of 117 percent.129 o '[R]esearch shows that use of [marijuana] can lead to dependence .
re: "can lead to", "lead to" -
Prohibition propaganda is rich with claims targeted drugs
'lead to' something even more frightful.
(Use is Abuse, Gateway (propaganda theme 4) )
(5) Some heavy users of marijuana develop withdrawal symptoms when they have not used the drug for a period of time .
re: "heavy users", "users" -
The rhetoric of prohibition will try to use labeling and
guilt by association to link drugs and drug users with hated groups.
(Hated Groups (propaganda theme 1) )
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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)
