Changes in marijuana laws are not associated with increased use of the substance by teens, according to data compiled by Washington’ Healthy Youth Survey and published by the Washington State Institute of Public Policy.
Day: September 9, 2015
Scientific bias
David Nutt has a good piece: Here’s Why We Hear So Many False Claims About Cannabis
On the whole, my many years of research on substance use has taught me a major overarching lesson: we are much more likely to demonize drugs for their negative effects than consider their neutral or potentially positive impacts. Or […]
What’s more wrong than John P. Walters or William J. Bennett? Both of them together.
The two wax nostalgic in the Boston Globe…
Bring back the war on drugs
Ah, yes, remember the good old days of the drug war that these two managed to inflict on this country? Well, they want it back.
For 25 years before President Obama, US policy confronted drug addiction with effective public health measures, […]