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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"I am the Lord thy God and thou shall not have false gods before Me"
Something to remember as you push the zealotry of marijuana.
"It is a evil in many forms that needs to be combated around the world.
If Afghanistan don't stop soon, look for China to get involved and start cutting limbs off everywhere."
How does it feel to be on the same side of a fascist government that is known to persecute practicing christians? As I have said previously, tyranny under the guise of conservatism, is still tyranny.
As a result of this post, I can see that you think the constitution is worth discussing, except when it is applied to personal consumption choices. Things that make you go hmmmmm......
What exactly is your definition of conservative, if in your mind a conservative should only apply to non-consumption choices?
I agree with you.
I think it is all about personal "weakness" and addictive personalities. Look at the people who are "addicted" to various things in life- cigarettes, alcohol, porn, food, etc.
Those people who get high every day would do the same thing with alcohol or some other drug if pot did not exist.
I was a recreational weekend user back in my teens and 20's. I found it much easier to smoke a joint (instead of drinking) and go out dancing and not have a hangover the next morning. I stopped when my employer began random drug testing. Haven't done it in 12 years. Stopped cold turkey, no withdrawals. I still "remember" how it felt and that it was fun, but I've grown up and have priorities.
Ping me if you get a response willing to discuss anything other than drugs, in anything other than extraconstitutional terms.
Procreation. You apparently are all d***k.
Talking constitutionality for acceptance of a vice/criminal act is not conservative, it's more like a condition of mental illness.
First off, the pro-illegal self medication types are endangering our children with introduction of this cr@p in their lives.
Our children need education, normal interested parents and self responsibility. The last thing they need are hippie drug culture social liberals pushing self medication in the name of the Constitution.
It is not self responsibility to do dumb things knowingly and to then take responsibility for them.
Self responsibility is also about using common sense to never start getting into things that put you in a bad place to begin with.
Illegal drugs, constitutional discussions of recreational drug use as acceptable are both evil and very dangerous.
Advocating recreational illegal drugs is evil, despite any attempts by you or others like MrLeroy to wrap it in a Constututional burrito. Just makes pro self medication/pot advocates drug pushers and nothing more.
Yes China is a communist nation, but how can you take that evil and use it to justify criminals entering their country to provide illegal drugs to hurt their population?
China doesn't want their people addicted by evil drugs and will probably take care of killing all the growers in Afghanistan at some point if they don't stop and I wouldn't blame them.
What makes you think drug growers, pushers and dealers have the right to anything more than the same death they would bring to others with their bad illegal drugs?
If somehow all the drug pushers could die first before corrupting normal people, well, that would be a good thing.
Judging from your screen name, you are completely NUTS.
Do you pray for their deaths?
Hope, not pray.
I would "hope" domestic illegal drug terrorists are caught or killed just as I would hope the ones in Afghanistan and Iraq are before hurting Americans.
I do pray for the safety of Americans in the field of battle and for the innocent citizens subject to domestic terrorists who promote and sell illegal drugs to self medicate recreational.
Why not?
Though killing the guilty that are causing deaths is not a wrong thing in the Bible or our society, I think it is good to at least try to at first apprehend them.
Illegal drug providers are local terrorists to our civilization and if they die, I'm not going to get all broken up about it.
Then why didn't you say "if they were all apprehended, it would be a good thing"?
You believe alchohol is *good* and should be legal . . . but pot is *bad* and should be illegal?
Apprehended is good, made to pay as to not repeat it would be wonderful.
Perhaps so, but an explanation of why your first thought was "dieing is good" was what was requested.
I said I'd rather see them dead first rather than have them be able to ruin the innocent.
Yes you did. And when you were questioned about it you immediatly started backpeddling with "well it would be better to apprehend them first....".
Nobody takes what you're saying seriously enough to actually think about it after you post it because you don't think about it before you post it.
I do know what I am posting about thank you...
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