Drug legalization and its corresponding expanded recreational use is a very bad public health and safety policy idea which has been very heavily financed by drug legalization advocates and the cannabis industry.
Pro pot propaganda is becoming tiresome and dated.
Massachusetts, get some updated youth behavior risk data — locally — from the Metrowest Health Foundation. And new evidence of physical and mental health harms associated with this drug is mounting.
This is not a benign drug.
Continue reading Youth use rates in Massachusetts have been rising each year since decrim.
“Many suffering people are being further harmed by the very ones that are supposed to help them – their own doctors.”
Continue reading Marijuana dangerous for treatment of psychiatric problems
By spending millions of dollars, the pro-pot lobby continues to deceive the American public with a crude street drug dressed up as “medicine.” It is time that the Department of Justice put an end to this charade which is causing social, medical, economic, and legal chaos across America and the world.
This excellent article written by former DEA Administrator Robert Bonner should be required reading for politicians and pundits who have abandoned reason in favor of pot propaganda and pot profits.
You can’t have an addiction-based industry without youth. Big Tobacco knew this. Big Pot does too. Here’s the big tobacco playbook:
Lorillard: “The base of our business is the high school student.”
Phillip Morris: “Today’s teenager is tomorrow’s potential regular customer…
Continue reading Today’s teenager is tomorrow’s potential regular customer…
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The early 1990’s showed the lowest youth use rates in decades.
We can reasonably conclude that supply reduction and education was working.
Continue reading What were we doing right? Youth Use Rates Lowest in 1992
Decriminalization, Medicinalization, Legalization — three steps to full legalization and big marijuana.
Continue reading 3 Steps to Marijuana Legalization — The Pro Pot Playbook
“Legalization is not far off. Congress is eating out of our hand like pigs at a trough.”
–Marijuana Lobbyist
My parent group just received a copy of a letter in which you state your support for financing marijuana stores.
We know that support for the initiative petition that saddled our state with this new law was based on a plea for compassion for the truly ill.
We now know that 97% of the so called “patients” in California have no serious illness and use pot only to get high.
California communities are trying to shut pot stores because they are a menace to communities. We also know that the newly enriched marijuana lobby is behind all the propaganda suggesting that this is anything other than a march toward full legalization.
Meanwhile, our kids are getting high every day — rates of youth use and addiction rising each year since decriminalization. Marijuana use rates among our children have nearly doubled since 1992. Continue reading A Lefty’s Marijuana Warning To Congress
Fair warning to other states who are considering this ill-conceived social experiment with the future of our children – don’t go there.
Under the heading “We told you so” is this revelation that youth marijuana use is going up because of drug legalization campaigns.
Continue reading High schoolers twice as likely to smoke pot as cigarettes
An appeal to Idaho Legislators:
On behalf of Health Advocates Rejecting Marijuana (HARM), please support SCR 112. SCR 112 gives the legislature control of medical marijuana and takes out-of-state brokered initiative petition laws off the table as a back door for big pot.
Less than 5% of people in states with “medical” marijuana programs have HIV, glaucoma, or cancer.
The bottom line is that the law was written by advocates, not doctors or DPH, so the proposals about allowing anyone to get marijuana for any reason still stands.
Continue reading In Response to Mass. DPH Draft Regs for “Medical” Marijuana
“Medical” marijuana is just a Trojan horse for legalization and a scam for back door legalization.
The following is a list of national medical associations representing medical conditions exploited by proponents of medical marijuana to engender compassionate votes in favor of initiative petition laws and who oppose the use of marijuana as a proven treatment. Continue reading National Medical Societies in Opposition to Marijuana
“THC levels high enough to land users, excuse me, “medical marijuana patients” in the emergency room.”
The pro-pot lobby loves to opine on the “benign” nature of marijuana – all while celebrating the high quality/high THC content of developing products.
Continue reading Overdosing on Marijuana — they said it couldn’t happen
Arizona–This amicus brief should send chills up the spines of every elected official (local, state and federal) in the country.
Continue reading Federal Law Trumps State & Local Marijuana Laws
Broken promises from the aggressive marijuana lobby and an increasingly enriched pot industry are the wolf in “compassionate” sheep’s clothing of “medical” marijuana laws and initiative petitions.
Has a new American drug cartel arrived?
Continue reading The Will of The People? Ask the average voter…
Westborough, Massachusetts–A Medical Marijuana zoning proposal was approved by voters at Town Meeting on March 16, 2013.
The vote was 97-34 in favor of the zoning bylaw.
Continue reading Town of Westborough Approves MMJ Zoning Bylaw
Credit: CBS
Speaking of pushing, look at what is happening in Colorado: …“Spike in
children using marijuana”
74% of children in a Denver youth substance abuse treatment program report getting their pot from a “medical” marijuana cardholder an average of 50 times. (Journal of Child Psychiatry, June 2012, Thurstone)
Continue reading Spike in Child Use [Colorado]
Continue reading Chicanery, Charlatan, Carpet Bagging — Big Pot and Profit