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DANGERS OF MARIJUANA: MARIJUANA AS A PRECURSOR TO ABUSE OF OTHER DRUGS
o Teens who experiment with marijuana may be making themselves
more vulnerable to heroin addiction later in life, if the findings
from experiments with rats are any indication. "Cannabis has
very long-term, enduring effects on the brain," according to Dr.
Yamin Hurd of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York,
the study's lead author.118
o Marijuana is a frequent precursor to the use of more dangerous
drugs and signals a significantly enhanced likelihood of drug
problems in adult life. The Journal of the American Medical
Association reported, based on a study of 300 sets of twins,
"that marijuana-using twins were four times more likely than
their siblings to use cocaine and crack cocaine, and five times
more likely to use hallucinogens such as LSD."119 o Long-term
studies on patterns of drug usage among young people show that
very few of them use other drugs without first starting with
marijuana. For example, one study found that among adults (age
26 and older) who had used cocaine, 62 percent had initiated
marijuana use before age 15. By contrast, less than one percent
of adults who never tried marijuana went on to use cocaine.120
o Columbia University's National Center on Addiction and Substance
Abuse (CASA) reports that teens who used marijuana at least once
in the last month are 13 times likelier than other teens to use
another drug like cocaine, heroin, or methamphetamine and almost
26 times likelier than those teens who have never used marijuana
to use another drug.121 o Marijuana use in early adolescence
is particularly ominous. Adults who were early marijuana users
were found to be five times more likely to become dependent on
any drug, 22
.......
eight times more likely to use cocaine in the future, and fifteen
times more likely to use heroin later in life.122
o Healthcare workers, legal counsel, police and judges indicate
that marijuana is a typical precursor to methamphetamine. For
instance, Nancy Kneeland, a substance abuse counselor in Idaho,
pointed out that "in almost all cases meth users began with
alcohol and pot."123 o An estimated 2.9 million persons aged
12 or older ' an average of approximately 7,900 per day - used
a drug other than alcohol for the first time in the past year
according to the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health.
Almost two-thirds (65.6 percent) of these new users reported
that marijuana was the first drug they tried.124
o Nearly one in ten high school students (9 percent) report
using marijuana 20 times or more in the past month according to
the findings of the 2011 Partnership Attitude Tracking Survey.125
o Teens past month heavy marijuana users are significantly more
likely than teens that have not used marijuana in the past to:
use cocaine/crack (30 times more likely); use Ecstasy (20 times
more likely); abuse prescription pain relievers (15 times more
likely): and abuse over the counter medications (14 times more
likely). This clearly denotes that teens that use marijuana
regularly are using other substances at a much higher rate than
teens who do not smoke marijuana, or smoke less often.126
summary: drug_related = 100%, drugwar_propaganda = 100%
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Sentence-By-Sentence Analysis
(1) DANGERS OF MARIJUANA: MARIJUANA AS A PRECURSOR TO ABUSE OF OTHER DRUGS o Teens who experiment with marijuana may be making themselves more vulnerable to heroin addiction later in life, if the findings from experiments with rats are any indication .
re: "addiction" -
Prohibition propaganda claims addiction is controlled by prohibition.
re: "DANGERS", "DANGERS OF" -
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: "Teens" -
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) )
(2) "Cannabis has very long-term, enduring effects on the brain," according to Dr .
re: "effects on the brain" -
Prohibitionist propaganda claims that horrible dangers
are caused by "drugs."
(Madness Crime Violence Illness (propaganda theme 2) )
(3) Yamin Hurd of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, the study's lead author.118 o Marijuana is a frequent precursor to the use of more dangerous drugs and signals a significantly enhanced likelihood of drug problems in adult life .
re: "dangerous drugs", "dangerous", "problems" -
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) )
(5) For example, one study found that among adults (age 26 and older) who had used cocaine, 62 percent had initiated marijuana use before age 15 .
re: "marijuana use" -
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) )
(7) Adults who were early marijuana users were found to be five times more likely to become dependent on any drug, 22 ....... eight times more likely to use cocaine in the future, and fifteen times more likely to use heroin later in life.122 o Healthcare workers, legal counsel, police and judges indicate that marijuana is a typical precursor to methamphetamine .
re: "marijuana users" -
"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: "times more likely to use" -
Prohibitionists often claim that a targeted drug
is a "gateway" to abuse of more dangerous drugs.
(Use is Abuse, Gateway (propaganda theme 4) )
(8) For instance, Nancy Kneeland, a substance abuse counselor in Idaho, pointed out that "in almost all cases meth users began with alcohol and pot."123 o An estimated 2.9 million persons aged 12 or older ' an average of approximately 7,900 per day - used a drug other than alcohol for the first time in the past year according to the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health .
re: "substance abuse", "Drug Use", "abuse" -
Prohibition propaganda claims that all use of any "drug" is abuse.
(Use is Abuse (propaganda theme 4) )
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Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/heroin.htm (Heroin)
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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)
