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  Studies Show Marijuana May Be Addictive
Posted by FoM on February 16, 2002 at 15:23:42 PT
By Taniquelle Thurner, Campus Reporter 
Source: Badger Herald  

cannabis Marijuana has always been known as the "non-addictive drug." However, recent studies have discovered it may be addictive after all; they have also found marijuana use is on the rise. Taniquelle Thurner, Campus ReporterDrug use on the UW-Madison campus may be rising, according to statistics compiled by the University Police Department.

In 1999, the university police made 66 drug-related arrests. By 2000, that number had risen to 97.

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Comment #16 posted by kaptinemo on February 18, 2002 at 05:58:11 PT:

Thank God for the 'Net!
On looking over at some other listings in CNews (specifically, idbsne1's comment about an upcoming teleconference involving the ONDCP propaganda fest via our tax dollars:

TELECONFERENCE ON MYTHS, FACTS, AND ILLICIT DRUGS: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW & MARIJUANA: WEEDING OUT THE HYPE SATELLITE BROADCAST http://www.ourdrugfreekids.com/Teleconference_Feb28.htm

I found a list of those who will be spreading this taxpayer funded scheisse, and guess who's going to be presenting there?

Why, it's good ol' Doc Budney!

from the Website:

Who: Sponsored by the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the National Guard Conterdrug Office, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)/Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and The Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America. Panelists will include:

Marijuana prevention and treatment professionals Dr. Alan J. Budney, a leading marijuana researcher Recovering teen marijuana users and parents of teen users

Ain't that amazin'? My, looks like he's trying to drum up more business, doesn''t it?

The rank and file of the Nazi party were no doubt Hofferian True Believers in their cause, never considering that the Party elite would stoop to anything as crass as lining their pockets while promulgating their cause...yet the top Nazi leadership stole Europe blind and amassed huge fortunes, some of it literally from the bodies of those they murdered.

Given their propensities for mimicking their closet idols in everything down to their dress, can we expect the antis to behave any differently?

This 'reporter' needs to have her nose rubbed in her own dreck for shamelessly plugging this opportunistic creep with this p*ss-poor attempt at infomercialling passed off as journalism.



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Comment #15 posted by kaptinemo on February 18, 2002 at 05:24:37 PT:

Considering the source...
"Last year, Dr. Alan J. Budney, associate professor at the University of Vermont and director of its Treatment Research Center...

Hmmm. Excuse me, friends, but do you detect the slight wafting stench of a 'conflict of interest?

...conducted a study to determine whether heavy marijuana smokers suffered withdrawal when trying to quit.

In this culture, an immediate assumption of addiction accompanies the word 'withdrawal'. Unspoken, of course, but automatically assumed.

"Last year, however, scientists at the National Institute on Drug Abuse found monkeys would voluntarily give themselves THC in amounts similar to those inhaled by people who smoke marijuana. Self-administration of drugs by animals is perceived to be a trademark of addictive substances."

Query: is this piece being written by a journalsim major? Aren't they teaching such things as the "5W's" - "Who, What, When, Where, Why"? (That I received in bloody high school in the 1970's!)

Those monekeys were first addicted to cocaine, then allowed to go through withdrawal. Then they were taught to administer cannabis solutions. After having screamingly raw edged nerves from cocaine addiction, wouldn't any creature with enough brains readily accept any amelioration of its' Godawful condition? Of course, and those poor simians did just that. Someone better clue this (probably literally) sophomoric student to the facts in the case. As I am about to...

Whenever I read of such things, the first thought that come to my mind is what Cicero asked 2,000 years ago to do: Ask 'who benefits?'

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Comment #14 posted by Mr X on February 17, 2002 at 23:34:40 PT
WHHHAAAT!?!
"Until recently, no experimentation had been done on animals to determine the effects of marijuana -- in particular, the primary ingredient, delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol, also known as THC."

HAHAHAHA, man this sentence gave me a huge belly laugh. I guess the people at UW dont have access to the internet, or any scientific journals.

Its also flawed!! Who cares how animals react to the drug? Isnt the point of the study to determine the effects on humans?

I guess I'll be throwing my admittance letter from UW in the trashcan if I'm going to become a chemist, UW is obviously a little behind in the times.

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Comment #13 posted by Nuevo Mexican on February 17, 2002 at 15:40:14 PT
oops!
Thanks GCW for the astro-archealogical links, and thanks Jose for the links you provided as well. Information is power, you sure know how to spread the word!

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Comment #12 posted by Nuevo Mexican on February 17, 2002 at 15:35:55 PT
Great LInk Jose!
Great website for C-news fans to gain insight about the 'really big' picture that is a source of constant hope and guidance. Get ready for the end of prohibition, as the stars deem it so. As above, so below! Peace!

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Comment #11 posted by DdC on February 17, 2002 at 13:09:37 PT
We Have to Hold the Liars Accountable!!!
Remember their names. No illness or addiction comes from racism scapegoating to eliminate competition from fascist IG Farben subsidiaries. Its not physically possible and these low life maggots who get press repeating their lies should be held accountable for their lies! GOPer Nazi Bastards! No one has ever died of withdrawal symptoms or overdose. No victims, no crime! Today I don't care if you forgive my French!
Peace, Love and Liberty
DdC

This lie cannot develope medical symptoms 80 years later!!!
"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Philipino's and Entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others."
Harry Anslinger, Commissioner of Narcotics testifying to Congress on why marijuana should be made illegal, 1937.
(Marijuana Tax Act, signed August 2 1937; effective Oct.1, 1937)

The Money Drug Addiction
http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcannabisprohibitionstuff.showMessage?topicID=144.topic

Ann Shulgin, PhD, Therapist and Author, Lafayette, CA, at the DPF Conference, November 1996:
"Several generations of high school students have grown up ignoring and disbelieving everything they've heard from government and police about drugs, including information that was factual and valid, because they discovered for themselves that most of what has been taught to them was simply not true."

The Shafer Commission of 1970
Marijuana does not lead to physical dependency, although some evidence indicates that the heavy, long-term users may develop a psychological dependence on the drug"

The USA Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy 1987
"Cannabis can be used on an episodic but continual basis without evidence of social or psychic dysfunction. In many users the term dependence with its obvious connotations, probably is mis-applied... The chief opposition to the drug rests on a moral and political, and not toxicologic, foundation".

The LaGardia sub-committee of New York 1944
"The use of marijuana does not lead to morphine or heroin or cocaine addiction and no effort is made to create a market for these narcotics by stimulating the practice of marijuana smoking"

Marijuana: Facts for Teens." U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Washington, D.C. 1995, p.10.
"Most marijuana users do not go on to use other drugs."

Dr. Anthony Henman:
"One of the best effects Marijuana can have in any terminal illness is to produce a degree of euphoria which boosts morale in a depressing situation"

The Economist March 28th 1992:
"Medicines often produce side effects. Sometimes they are physically unpleasant. Cannabis too has discomforting side effects, but these are not physical they are political"

Professor Lester Grinspoon, Harvard Medical School, USA:
"Marijuana is one of the least toxic substances in the whole pharmacopoeia"

Judge James Pickles, UK:
"Cannabis never killed anybody and it's use is widespread. You can"t stop it. The law defeats itself because all the efforts to stop drugs coming in only drives up the prices and then gangsters move in to push the drugs. If they legalised there wouldn't be gangsters and huge profits...The police are gradually decriminalising the possession of cannabis because they realise there's not much point prosecuting"


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Comment #10 posted by Jose Melendez on February 17, 2002 at 05:04:45 PT:

FREE CANNABIS - Vote!
Catawba started smoking cigarettes at eight right? Maybe he should spend 3.60 on a used algebra book, and he will see that he could have a used truck for about $1500 and own it outright, same for the motorcycle. (My first bike was a 1982 Yamaha 650 Maxim - and I was smart enough to wait until I was 26 to buy it at $550... that saved my life*, and lots of money.)

Then he could afford to work 20 hours at minimum wage and still have time and money left over to learn a new skill, start a business, even volunteer time at a homeless shelter or do some other valuable community service.

He might even make enough contacts in his spare time to run for office, "Free Cannabis - Catawba for Senator"

* because I was too paranoid about killing myself on a motorcycle, I waited until I felt mature enough to ride safely. Sure enough, I turned down a race at a light - and watched as the kid wanting to race me got t-boned (someone ran the red perpendicular to him.) I drove on, shaking my head...)

Of course, that's anecdotal evidence, but reading published studies many years later that pot paranoia leads to safer driving made me a believer.

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Comment #9 posted by p4me on February 16, 2002 at 22:00:15 PT
go to a treatment center
"Everyone always says that this stuff isn't addictive, and I believed it. But when I tried to stop smoking pot, it was really hard.

Then maybe you should go to a treatment center at the school you attend. The 19.2 billion WOSD package on announced on Tuesday was hailed for its bold new iniative on treatment.

I have read the above articles about the UK and it is proof enough to me that some countries in the world are coming to their senses. I am still waiting for some of the books and movies to start to dwell in the pain caused by the tyrannical marijuana laws. I cannot help but believe that The Colin Davies Story will become a movie reality in the UK within a year or two. Even the Romans used to say "there is nothing new under the sun." Todays writers are in competition for stories and stories are born out of conflict and 35% plus growth are against these absurd marijuana laws and then the MMJ laws are now laughable or cryable in the light of science. The conflict between political position versus science and medicine is too big a conflict not to work its way into literature and video.

I think that there may be some college person thinking of the short story he has to turn in for his degree this May. Say if I were working on my Master's and write now I had to write a story with the conflict between someone that smokes tobacco and marijuana. The reason I would choose this subject is because it is timely and I have enough knowledge or BS to present the picture. As with many people I would draw my knowledge out of personal life and modify a person I will call Catawba. Now Catawba started smoking when he was 8 years old. He sold drugs to pay for his drugs and joined the Army when he was 16. He sold a lot of MJ in Hawaii before the Army discharged him.

Now Catawba works in a furniture mill and makes $12.50 an hour. His truck payment is $465 a month and he financed a motorcycle at 22percent interest. He has been on temporary layoff a month in the last year and it is more common to work four days a week rather than five. The last time he bought cigs he paid $3.60 a pack with money he already owes on his last car payment. Catawba has a real and everyday conflict that needs to be on one of those 200 channels that everyone now boast of.

Maybe the college kids will get riled and put an end to this insanity. I am interested to see the Jamaica movies that will be coming out. Smoke and skin in Jamaica. It has to happen because the young people are the Movie goers and how hard and expensive would it be to have the College Spring Break movies be made in Jamaica.

I am optomistic that change will happen in this country. I am oppressed until it does happen and that is the way it is.

VAAI



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Comment #8 posted by mayan on February 16, 2002 at 17:36:34 PT
Freedom
Twinkies can be addictive. Where is the Partnership for a Twinkie Free America? The Government should worry less about saving us from ourselves & worry more about saving it's corrupted,bloated self.

It all acomes down to freedom.

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Comment #7 posted by goneposthole on February 16, 2002 at 17:30:10 PT
addiction studies
If alcohol were illegal, there would be all sorts of studies proving that alcohol is addictive. The prohibitionists of alcohol would see to that.

If nicotine were illegal, the same would be true.

What should be illegal is hypocrisy. The prohibitionists would cry foul here, too. There is freedom of religion.

Theirs happens to be HYPOCRISY.

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Comment #6 posted by Jose Melendez on February 16, 2002 at 17:12:40 PT:

tree of life
Yes, very interesting stuff about bringing Christ hashish.

I have read other things seem to confirm this, pointing to the other herbs and scents brought for the Son of God.

Other evidence shows that older versions of the bible refer to cannabis in many places, some of which have been stripped from the texts much in the same way as cannabis is missing from history books, fields, farms and medicine chests.

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Comment #5 posted by The GCW on February 16, 2002 at 17:02:22 PT
Jose Melendez
Did you see the links about the Astro-archaeological stuff at http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread12018.shtml ? At Terror and the War on Drugs, story.

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Comment #4 posted by xxdr_zombiexx on February 16, 2002 at 17:01:06 PT
Misuse of terminology to perpetuate lies
Cannabis Prohibition relies on maintaining any connection, however lame, to the specter of heroin addiction.

With Bush's intent to create a "culture of compassionate coercion" to get "addicts" in to treatment, I suggest you be aware of the term "addiction" being bandied about as part of the "latest research" ploy.

Addiction technically means physiological dependence, and heroin is the timeless and ultimate example, although alcohol, nicotine, and benzodiazapines are known to be as addictive, and withdrawl from benzos (valium/xanax) and alcohol can be UGLY and FATAL. Withdrawl from heroin is not normally fatal....just UGLY.

Cannabis is an herb, not a manufatured and chemically manipulated toxin like alcohol or nicotine or benzodiazapines.

Cannabis creats HABITUATION: a strong habit that is doubtless difficult for some to deal with. It is known to create problems especially for youth as youth have more time to get around rules and conventions, especially when the topic is "taboo". That is one of the less-reported on aspects of cannabis prohibiton, but one where figures are readily prevalent.

In the US and in the UK cannabis is quite taboo and the use among teens here and there is vastly higher than in the Netherlands, where cannabis is tolerated, normalized, and , esssentially, "no big deal". Dutch teeens smoke considerably less than American teens, do better in school across the spectrum of studies, and get into less trouble.

This report and all those stupid ads trying to link pot smokers to terrorism aer simply out to defame cannabis smokers and maintain some support for Bush's onslaught against Cannabis Culture.

It's Psychological Warfare used against Americans at a time when we are under siege by real enemies from foreign states.

Wake up and get a grip on what' what: legalize cannabis. Respect Freedom.

Freedom Endures

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Comment #3 posted by The GCW on February 16, 2002 at 16:58:44 PT
Fact is...
cannabis is easier to quit than coffee, according to addiction charts.

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Comment #2 posted by Jose Melendez on February 16, 2002 at 15:51:37 PT:

addicted to donations from mass murderers
From:
http://www.no-smoke.org/pm-wilsn.html

Philip Morris Companies Inc. - Inter-Office Correspondence PHILIP MORRIS COMPANIES INC. INTER-OFFICE CORRESPONDENCE


1341 G STREET, N.W., SUITE 900, WASHINGTON, D.C., 20005




TO:  Buffy                      																					DATE: 4/24/90


FROM: Jim

SUBJECT: Pete Wilson


Wilson is only sending about 16K of the 100K he collected. This 16K includes checks he received from either a tobacco company or anyone working directly for a tobacco company, i.e., Hamish Maxwell, Mrs. Ehud, Bill Murray.

Apparently, he has also done this with other "controversial" industries such as lumber, chemical, and others. The decision to do this was Wilson's alone, and in the response to a wave of negative campaigning in California that not only attacks the candidates, but those who give to them as well.

You will be pleased to know that Pete called Hamish to explain that he was doing this to protect Hamish as well as himself. You will also be pleased to know that Pete is still "pro-tobacco".



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Comment #1 posted by Jose Melendez on February 16, 2002 at 15:46:07 PT:

Enforce laws relative to harm caused.
Ken Starr never went after his former clients for perjury. Bud and Pepsi advertise addictive drugs in the Superbowl alongside lies from ONDCP about artificially overpriced illicit drugs, whose profits fund terror exponentially less than oil or diamonds.

From:
http://www.mcspotlight.org/beyond/abctranscript.html

Martin:     Van Neuheiser is a vice president of Doctor Madis
            Laboratories.  He told us how they make this
            concentrated extract that is rich in nicotine.

Neuheiser: You put the solvent on it - whatever solvent it is, water or alcohol - then just percolate it. And after you percolate it you concentrate it. Its basically the same as you have in a drip coffee pot. Its kind of a syrupy consistency, you know, like molasses.

Martin: Why would the tobacco companies use this nicotine rich syrup.

Unidentified RJR Manager: They put nicotine in the form of a tobacco extract into a product to keep the consumer happy.

Martin: They're fortifying the product with nicotine. Is that correct?

Unidentified RJR Manager: The waste filler? Yes, they are.

Koop: Well as you describe that - which I've heard for the first time - it makes my blood boil, because what they are now selling is not a natural tobacco product which happens to have nicotine in it, but they are selling a nicotine dispenser. And that is quite different.

Martin: To try to verify that nicotine is being added to the reconstituted tobacco in cigarettes, we went to the American Health Foundation, a respected research center in Valhalla New York.

At DayOne's request, the foundation separated and then analyzed the reconstituted tobacco portion of several brands of RJR cigarettes. Reconstituted tobacco ordinarily contains 25% or less of the nicotine in regular tobacco. But the samples we tested had up to 70% of the nicotine that would be found in regular tobacco.

Bogdan Kopochek performed the analysis.

Kopochek: Well, I was kind of surprised because I excepted it to be less. The most likely explanation is that someone has altered it. Either with flavoring agents or ??????.

Martin: Why are you adding nicotine to your cigarettes?

Bethizy: We not in any way doing that.

Martin: You're not adding nicotine?

Bethizy: No, We, We, We don't do that.

Martin: Joseph de Bethizy and John Robinson are RJR scientists involved in tobacco research.

Martin: You know about tobacco extracts though?

Bethizy: I do know about tobacco extracts. They, They, They're er used as flavor materials and and its very common in the tobacco industry.

Martin: But is there nicotine in those?

Bethizy: Uh, a water extract of tobacco would have nicotine in it. Uh.

Martin: How much?

Bethizy: Just like a water extract of of of of the coffee bean would have caffeine in it. Uh, And

Martin: So - Would this be a little bit or a lot?

Bethizy: Uh, Uh, Its hard for me to say. I, I don't know what a little bit or a lot would be. Uh, Uh, But I think that Uh

Martin: How much does it have?

Bethizy: I think any company involved in the manufacture of tobacco Uh, and whose consumers are demanding a wide range of tar and nicotine products Uh, They have Uh, Uh, blending and reconstituted tobacco techniques for reaching those, Uh, that range of of tar and nicotine in their products.

Martin: But how much nicotine is added? The companies control the dosage precisely according to this former RJR manager.

In commercially sold cigarettes, what percentage of tobacco extract is nicotine?

Unidentified RJR Manager: Uh, That, That really depends on what level the process calls for. In other words, I can say to you, I want it at one percent, I want it at five percent, I want it at ten percent, I want it at fifteen percent.

Martin: Its this ability to control the exact dosage of nicotine with tobacco extract that is so alarming to Dr. Greg Connolly, a Massachusetts health official.

Connolly: Tobacco extract is taking nicotine out of tobacco leaf. Its a drug called nicotine. Its a euphemism. Its like calling heroin, poppy seed oil. Its a drug. Its a drug. Its a drug.



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