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MARIJUANA USE AMONG YOUTH IS RISING AS PERCEPTION OF RISK DECREASES
o Historical drug trends from the national Monitoring the Future
Survey show that when anti-drug attitudes soften there is a
corresponding increase in drug use in the coming years. An
adolescent's perception of risks associated with substance use
is an important determinant of whether he or she engages in
substance abuse. Youths who perceive high risk of harm are less
likely to use drugs than youths who perceive low risk of harm.
o The 2013 Monitoring the Future Survey five-year trends are
showing significant increase in past-year and past-month (current)
marijuana use across all three grades, as well as increase in
lifetime and daily marijuana use among 10th graders. From 200
o 8 to 2013, past month use increased from 5.8 percent to 7
percent among 8th graders, 13.8 percent to 18 percent among 10th
graders and 19.4 percent to 22.7 percent among 12th graders.200
o Nearly 23 percent of seniors say they smoked marijuana in the
past month, and just over 36 percent smoked it in the past
year.201 This means that one in every 15 high school seniors is
a daily or near daily user of marijuana.202
o For 10th graders, 4 percent say they use marijuana daily,
with 18 percent using in the past month, and 29.8 percent using
in the past year. More than 12 percent of 8th graders (13 and
14 year olds) say they used marijuana in the past year.203
o This increase in use by teens reiterates the link between use
and the perception of risk. Lloyd Johnston, principal investigator
of the Monitoring the Future Survey, once again raises this
concern as a result of the findings of the survey. "Most noteworthy
is the fact that the proportion of adolescents seeing marijuana
use as risk declined again sharply in all 34
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three grades. Perceived risk- namely the risk to the user that
teenagers associate with a drug- has been a lead indicator of
use, both for marijuana and other drugs, and it has continued
its sharp decline in 2013 among teens. This could foretell further
increases in use in the future."204
o From 2005 to 2013, the percent of teens seeing great risk
from being a regular marijuana user has fallen among 8th graders
from 74 percent to 61 percent; among 10th graders, from 66 percent
to 47 percent; and among 12th graders, from 58 percent to 40
percent.205
o This means that among high school seniors, sixty percent do
not view regular marijuana use as harmful.206
o Survey results from the past two years also revealed that 34
percent of marijuana-using 12th-graders living in states with
medical marijuana laws say that one of the ways they obtain the
drug is through someone else's medical marijuana "prescription."
In addition, more than 6 percent say they get it with their own
"prescription." Thus states with medical marijuana laws do seem
to provide another avenue of accessibility to the drug. This
link between state laws and marijuana's accessibility to teens
will continue to be explored.207
o According to the Partnership Attitude Tracking Survey, 2011
Parents and Teens, nine percent of teens (1.5 million) smoked
marijuana heavily (at least 20 times in the past month). Between
2008 and 2011, past month use is up 42 percent, past year use
is up 26 percent and lifetime use is up 21 percent among teens.208
o Teens report seeing more of their peers smoking marijuana;
only 26 percent say that in their school most teens don't smoke
marijuana. Also, 71 percent of teens say they have friends that
smoke marijuana regularly, up from 64 percent in 2008.209
o A continuing erosion of anti-marijuana attitudes was also
noted; only about half of teens (51 percent) say the see great
risk in using marijuana, down from 61 percent in 2005.210
o Media also plays a role in changing the perception of marijuana
use. Nearly half (45 percent) of teens say that the music they
listen to makes marijuana seem cool and almost half (47 percent)
agree that movies and television shows make drugs seem like the
thing to do.211
o A recent study by researchers from New York University's
Center for Drug Use and HIV Research found that a large proportion
of high school students normally at low risk for marijuana use
reported intention to use marijuana if it were legal. "What I
personally find interesting is the reasonably high percentage
of students who are very religious, non- cigarette smoking,
non-drinkers, and those who have friends who disapprove of
marijuana use ' who said they intended to try marijuana if it
was legal," said Dr. Palamar, Assistant Professor at the
Department of Population Health, NYU Langone Medical Center.212
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Sentence-By-Sentence Analysis
(1) MARIJUANA USE AMONG YOUTH IS RISING AS PERCEPTION OF RISK DECREASES o Historical drug trends from the national Monitoring the Future Survey show that when anti-drug attitudes soften there is a corresponding increase in drug use in the coming years .
re: "drug use", "MARIJUANA USE" -
"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: "YOUTH" -
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) )
(2) An adolescent's perception of risks associated with substance use is an important determinant of whether he or she engages in substance abuse .
re: "substance abuse", "substance 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) )
re: "adolescent" -
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) Youths who perceive high risk of harm are less likely to use drugs than youths who perceive low risk of harm. o The 2013 Monitoring the Future Survey five-year trends are showing significant increase in past-year and past-month (current) marijuana use across all three grades, as well as increase in lifetime and daily marijuana use among 10th graders .
re: "marijuana use" -
Prohibitionist propagandists repeatedly assert that "use is abuse."
Details about "using" as opposed to "abusing" drugs are ignored.
(Use is Abuse (propaganda theme 4) )
re: "Youths", "graders" -
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) )
(5) More than 12 percent of 8th graders (13 and 14 year olds) say they used marijuana in the past year.203 o This increase in use by teens reiterates the link between use and the perception of risk .
re: "teens", "graders" -
Stealthy as a socialist, it slithers up our shores, /
Turning all our children into hooligans and whores! /
This smoking bowl of evil bears the choking stench of sin! /
It burrows like a weevil under tender Christian skin!
-- Reefer Madness! the musical
(Children Corrupted (propaganda theme 5) )
(7) "Most noteworthy is the fact that the proportion of adolescents seeing marijuana use as risk declined again sharply in all 34 ....... three grades .
re: "marijuana use" -
Prohibition propaganda claims that all use of any "drug" is abuse.
(Use is Abuse (propaganda theme 4) )
re: "adolescents" -
Prohibitionists are champions of "the child", "kids", "children", etc.
Only continued or increased punishments of all adults caught using "drugs"
will send the correct "message" to children.
(Children Corrupted (propaganda theme 5) )
(8) Perceived risk- namely the risk to the user that teenagers associate with a drug- has been a lead indicator of use, both for marijuana and other drugs, and it has continued its sharp decline in 2013 among teens .
re: "teenagers", "teens" -
"Since the Harrison Act of 1914, the user and the seller of
illicit drugs have both been characterized as evil, criminal,
insane, and always in search of new victims, the victims are
characterized as young children." [W.White,1979]
(Children Corrupted (propaganda theme 5) )
(12) This link between state laws and marijuana's accessibility to teens will continue to be explored.207 o According to the Partnership Attitude Tracking Survey, 2011 Parents and Teens, nine percent of teens (1.5 million) smoked marijuana heavily (at least 20 times in the past month) .
re: "teens", "Parents" -
Being a prohibitionist means you can never shed too many crocodile
tears for the "children". (As you lustily jail or kill their
parents for using drugs.)
(Children Corrupted (propaganda theme 5) )
(13) Between 2008 and 2011, past month use is up 42 percent, past year use is up 26 percent and lifetime use is up 21 percent among teens.208 o Teens report seeing more of their peers smoking marijuana; only 26 percent say that in their school most teens don't smoke marijuana .
re: "teens" -
Prohibitionist propaganda continually whips up parental fear,
invoking lurid images of children corrupted by drugs.
(Children Corrupted (propaganda theme 5) )
(14) Also, 71 percent of teens say they have friends that smoke marijuana regularly, up from 64 percent in 2008.209 o A continuing erosion of anti-marijuana attitudes was also noted; only about half of teens (51 percent) say the see great risk in using marijuana, down from 61 percent in 2005.210 o Media also plays a role in changing the perception of marijuana use .
re: "marijuana use" -
The rhetoric of prohibition will assume that "use" and "abuse" are
identical.
(Use is Abuse (propaganda theme 4) )
re: "teens" -
"Chemicals have long been inextricably linked in prohibitionist
literature with the ... corruption of young people." [W.White,1979]
(Children Corrupted (propaganda theme 5) )
re: "anti-marijuana" -
Don't justify the wholesale marijuana arrest, prosecution, and
imprisonment industry; but instead pretend the issue is about some
pro-dope "advocates" and "activists", who just want to get stoned.
Act as if no one is imprisoned for cannabis. Or (if pressed),
weasel. Assert the numbers in "federal" prison for marijuana
"possession" as an "unrelated charge" are "practically zero".
Nobody goes to prison for pot, and only nut-bar moon-bat activist advocates
would ever say so.
(And this is precisely why people must always go to prison for pot.)
If anyone balks, pretend that arresting and imprisoning people for
marijuana is a new 'third' way, and that the problem all along was
lack of trust in the competence and good faith of government.
(16) "What I personally find interesting is the reasonably high percentage of students who are very religious, non- cigarette smoking, non-drinkers, and those who have friends who disapprove of marijuana use ' who said they intended to try marijuana if it was legal," said Dr .
re: "marijuana use" -
Abusus non tollit usum. (Abuse is no argument against proper use.) -- Latin proverb
(Use is Abuse (propaganda theme 4) )
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