Posted on 03/04/2005 10:44:14 AM PST by MisterRepublican
WASHINGTON - The admission rate for those who seek treatment for marijuana use nearly tripled between 1992 and 2002, according to the latest data compiled by the federal government.
The numbers released Friday reflect a growing use of marijuana in the 1990s and an increase in the potency of marijuana, said Tom Riley, a spokesman for the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy.
"This report makes clear what people in the public health community have known for years, which is marijuana is a much more dangerous drug than many Americans realize," Riley said. "This report is a wake up call for parents that marijuana is not a soft drug. It's a much bigger part of the addiction problem than is generally understood."
The study on treatment rates was conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, which estimated that 41 states experienced an increase in the number of people who sought treatment for marijuana use during the decade studied.
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It is the socially liberal politics of drugs they are here to mess the conservative board up, that's why. Could be from DU for all we know.
They're from DU alright...the smell comes over even across the internet...
What I'm saying is gthat plenty of people check themselves into rehab for drugs such as coke and heroin. What is it about pot that makes it different?
Whatever you say, Bill.
Well, it's got you so messed up that you're at odds with a strict construtionist view of the Constitution over it. I guess that makes you the victim, since you're obviously powerless to decide wheather you're going to let them mess you up or not.
"What I'm saying is gthat plenty of people check themselves into rehab for drugs such as coke and heroin. What is it about pot that makes it different?"
Nothing about pot makes it different. Coke and heroin users who check themselves in to rehab almost always do it under duress, just like you said about pot users. They tend to be adults, so they don't need their parents to do it for them, but they don't have any better sense than pot users until the heat is on, and their attorney or employer lays down the ultimatum.
In fact, they pretty much all started out as pot users, who believed they could do whatever they wanted and somehow not pay the piper.
The rates of voluntary rehab are quite different. If you cannot concede this obvious fact, there is no use in discussing this.
I don't care about what kind of chestier lawyer type view you attempt to take of the Constitution for your purposes of pushing illegal drugs, bottom line it is unsafe and wrong.
The conservatives here know you are wrong. Other extreme social liberals like yourself here who take interpretation to the point of anarchy are so out of touch that you frankly can't be saved.
Like a virus in a computer, positions of illegal self medicating need to be isolated and preferable deleted at some point to avoid ruining a normal mode.
God forbid you infect children with your views on this issue. I find you nothing short of dangerous.
There is no justification to advocate self medicating of illegal drugs.
Do you think people who find constitutional problems with the way the drug war is being waged should be removed from the forum?
I think the issue of discussin constitutional problems with anything is not a problem.
The distinction is the pride and promotion of the illegal drugs involved in the subject matter.
I have no problem with discussions of constitutionality, but to pick this issue to go to the wall on when these drugs are a horror to our society make the lust for legalization more corrupt than the Democrat process of having the dead vote IMO.
I would like to see lots more talk by those debating the constitutionality of whatever to acknowledge what crap drugs are and that all agree they should never be promoted.
Also that the unprescribed illegal self recreational medication should be seen as a horror, not a quest.
No, of course not...your one-issue liberalism is extremely instructive...please, keep posting crap...
You seem to have a thing for wanting to provide other people's opinions for them.
This from someone who swims totally against the tide of public opinion regarding the WOD...yet wants to tell everyone on FreeRepublic how wonderful marijuana is...?
If I wanted to, wouldn't I be doing it?
"If you need the freedom to self medicate for your brand of liberty, you've got disturbingly BIG PROBLEMS."
And according to A CA Guy, it is the Federal Government's guns that are the solution to any such personal problems.
I wonder, A CA Guy, do you feel the same way about people without the personal fortitude to save for their own retirement? Do you support the use of Government guns to ensure they are taken care of?
The basis of your argument can be used in several ways to steal liberty. I stand by my previous post.
"As it is, we know alcohol abuse is criminal.."
News to me. Can you please provide the link to the legislation that makes alcohol abuse crimina?
"Conservatives are not into drugs and are smarter than that.
They push better things like investment in yourself and education, not intoxication or a drug high."
Which Conservatives? I could point to many that would beg to differ. Conservatives believe in personal liberty, which includes the freedom to make poor decisions and live with the consequences. You would prefer to use the Government to artificially inflate the consequences of the decision to ingest certain substances. Much like the tobacco gnatzies of the left or the Fast Food litigators.
"Abusive levels of alcohol use is criminal under almost all situations."
It is the abuse that is illegal.
"Even home with kids you are the caretaker for a minor and may not be drunk without a sober acceptable adult under the same roof for the minor."
How does being drunk relate to "abuse"? What is your standard for drunkenness?
"If not consumed in abusive levels, alcohol can be good for you and it's properties as a food purifier legendary and even Biblical."
The same argument is as valid for other substances, those of which you default to the state to define as good or bad. Why do you turn to the bible for alcohol, and the state for other substances?
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