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 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. Snipped Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
Comment #16 posted by kaptinemo on February 18, 2002 at 05:58:11 PT:
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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. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #15 posted by kaptinemo on February 18, 2002 at 05:24:37 PT:
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"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?' [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #14 posted by Mr X on February 17, 2002 at 23:34:40 PT |
"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. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #13 posted by Nuevo Mexican on February 17, 2002 at 15:40:14 PT |
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! [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #12 posted by Nuevo Mexican on February 17, 2002 at 15:35:55 PT |
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! [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #11 posted by DdC on February 17, 2002 at 13:09:37 PT |
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!!!
The Money Drug Addiction Ann Shulgin, PhD, Therapist and Author, Lafayette, CA, at the DPF Conference, November 1996: The Shafer Commission of 1970 The USA Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy 1987 The LaGardia sub-committee of New York 1944 Marijuana: Facts for Teens." U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Washington, D.C. 1995, p.10. Dr. Anthony Henman: The Economist March 28th 1992: Professor Lester Grinspoon, Harvard Medical School, USA: Judge James Pickles, UK: [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #10 posted by Jose Melendez on February 17, 2002 at 05:04:45 PT:
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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. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #9 posted by p4me on February 16, 2002 at 22:00:15 PT |
"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 [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #8 posted by mayan on February 16, 2002 at 17:36:34 PT |
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. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #7 posted by goneposthole on February 16, 2002 at 17:30:10 PT |
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. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #6 posted by Jose Melendez on February 16, 2002 at 17:12:40 PT:
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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. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #5 posted by The GCW on February 16, 2002 at 17:02:22 PT |
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. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #4 posted by xxdr_zombiexx on February 16, 2002 at 17:01:06 PT |
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 [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #3 posted by The GCW on February 16, 2002 at 16:58:44 PT |
cannabis is easier to quit than coffee, according to addiction charts. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #2 posted by Jose Melendez on February 16, 2002 at 15:51:37 PT:
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From: http://www.no-smoke.org/pm-wilsn.html 1341 G STREET, N.W., SUITE 900, WASHINGTON, D.C., 20005 TO: Buffy DATE: 4/24/90 [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #1 posted by Jose Melendez on February 16, 2002 at 15:46:07 PT:
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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: 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. [ Post Comment ] |
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