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A collection of esays and articles from parties to the opposition movement to the increase availability and access of cannabis. Twenty plus individuals come together in this publication to share their thoughts, the reputable science and the facts that support their central argument which is that legalization would increase use by youth and pose risks that are not worth taking. The move to advance legalization is addressed from a pivotal question to the debate: How do we reduce the use of marijuana by youth ? This important question is the priority facing policy and decision makers given the solid science on the consequences of use by a youth population.. Individuals contributing to this work come from the world of academia, the professions of law, medicine and public health and law enforcement along with individuals and advocates associated with public health initiatives to fight the commercialization of marijuana in the United States, Canada, the UK and Australia.

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Publié par	Grafton & Scratch Publishers
Date de parution	31 octobre 2014
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781927979082
Langue	English

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On Marijuana
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication:
On marijuana : a powerful examination of what marijuana use means for our children, our communities, and our future / compiled by Pamela McColl.
Includes bibliographical references and index. Issued in print and electronic formats. ISBN 978-1-927979-07-5 (pbk.).—ISBN 978-1-927979-08-2 (epub).—ISBN 978-1-927979-09-9 (pdf)
1. Marijuana—Risk assessment. 2. Marijuana—Social aspects. 3. Marijuana—Health aspects. 4. Marijuana abuse. I. McColl, Pamela, 1958–, author, editor
HV5822.M3O55 2014 362.29’5 C2014-905910-8 C2014-905911-6
O n Marijuana
A powerful examination of what marijuana use means for our children, our communities and our future
compiled by P AMELA M C C OLL foreword by D AVID F RUM & K EVIN A. S ABET , P H D
Contents
Foreword
David Frum and Kevin A. Sabet, PhD
Note to Reader
Interview with Dr. David Musto from Frontline, “Busted: America’s War on Marijuana”
Frontline/PBS Winter 1997-1998
The Arguments for Legalization
Stuart Gitlow MD MPH MBA President, American Society of Addiction Medicine
What Canadian Youth Think About Cannabis: Report in Short
Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) September 2013 Amy J. Porath-Waller PHD, Jonathan E. Brown PHD, Aarin P. Frigon MA, CHRP, Heath Clark MA
What Are The Costs Associated with Marijuana Legalization?
Jo McGuire, Occupational Health & Safety September 2014
The Pot Kids
David Berner, Executive Director, Drug Prevention Network of Canada, Therapist
What Science Says About Marijuana
Samuel A. Ball, President and Chief Executive of CASA Columbia, University, and a professor of psychiatry at Yale Medical School .
Statement Against Legalization of Marijuana
Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation
Drug Free Australia’s Position on Medical Marijuana/Cannabis
July 2014
Legalization Always Increases Use
Edward Gogek MD
What is the Societal Impact of Legalized Marijuana?
Lynette Crow-Iverson, Conspire!
An Example of Marijuana’s Impact on Teen Brain Activity
Dr. Andra Smith PHD Associate Professor, School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Canada
Mixing Cannabis and Alcohol
National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre
An Open Letter to States Considering Legalization of Marijuana
Ed Wood, President, DUID Victim Voices
Cannabis: General Facts An Extract from Cannabis: A General Survey of its Harmful Effects
Updated 2014:10 Mary Brett, Chair CanSS, member of the World Forum Against Drugs
How Physicians Should Respond to the New Cannabis Regulations
Canadian Journal of Addiction 2013:9 Meldon Kahan MD CCFP and Sheryl Spithoff MD CCFP
Marijuana and Pregnancy: What Are the Risks?
Pamela McColl, Director and Advisory Council Member to Smart Approaches to Marijuana Canada
Cannabis and the Reproductive System, Pregnancy and the Development of Children
Mary Brett, Chair CanSS, member of the World Forum Against Drugs
Silent Forests? Rodenticides on Illegal Marijuana Crops Harm Wildlife
Wildlife Society News Spring 2013 Mourad W. Gabriel, Greta M. Wengert, J. Mark Higley, Shane Krogan, Warren Sargent, Deana L. Clifford
Changes in Attitudes, Intentions, and Behaviors toward Tobacco and Marijuana during US Students’ First Year of College Tobacco Use Insights.
Mara W. Stewart, Megan A. Moreno MD, MPH, MSED
Marijuana: Medicine, Addictive Substance, or Both? A Common-Sense Approach to the Place of Cannabis in Medicine
Canadian Journal of Addiction 2013:9 Harold Kalant CM, MD, PhD, FRSC Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
Finding Solutions
Robert B. Charles, former Assistant Secretary of State, for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL)
The Nature and Extent of Marijuana Possession in British Columbia
Kale Pauls RCMP, Dr. Irwin M. Cohen, Dr. Darryl Plecas, Tara Haarhoff, RCMP
Foreword
M ARIJUANA . C ANNABIS . P OT . Nowadays these terms often preclude some tense argument or shouting match pertaining to health and safety, therapeutic value, societal responses, and legalization policy. Popular websites and blogs, user forums, television news specials, Facebook postings and tweets are filled with information about how marijuana is a relatively benign herb, having endured a century of suffering at the hands of evil government doers.
But what is rarely said or spoken about, it seems, is what scientists and historians have to say about the drug. It is not often that the positions of the Canadian or American Medical Associations, the World Health Organization, or the evidence gathered and published in prestigious works like the New England Journal of Medicine are broadcast widely, let alone translated into words most people can easily grasp. Half-second Google searches will show plenty of results about how marijuana is harmless; it takes a deep dive, however, to grasp the 0.01 p-level significance of large longitudinal studies examining the complex interaction between IQ and heavy marijuana use, for example.
Add to this a relentless campaign by would-be profiteers to commercialize and legitimize marijuana and you get the situation society seems to be in now: a tangled confusion about marijuana’s true health harms, the risks to society if use spreads, and the potential of a for-profit commercial market to advertise and promote heavy abuse.
This book helps to rid the debate of that confusion. It presents, plainly and openly, the harms numerous reputable researchers and organizations are concerned about. This is required reading for officials contemplating marijuana legalization.
It is also remarkable that now we have some concrete examples of legalization—no longer is legalization just a theory or idea. It has now been implemented in a handful of jurisdictions in North America.
After multimillion-dollar political campaigns, Colorado and Washington voters legalized marijuana in November of 2012. Though it would take more than a year to set up retail stores, personal use (in Colorado and Washington) and home cultivation and giving away of up to 6 plants (in Colorado) were almost immediately legalized following the vote. Public marijuana use, though illegal, remains a common way to celebrate the law, and a brand new industry selling candies, waxes, sodas, and other marijuana items exploded.
The US federal government announced they would initially take a hands-off approach, promising to track nine consequences (from youth marijuana use to use on public lands) and determine action later. So far, however, no robust public tracking system by federal or state authorities has been implemented. The group Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM), one that we helped to establish in 2013, began tracking developments on a website www.legalizationviolations.com , along with its main home, www.learnaboutsam.org .
And though it is too early to firm up final conclusions, there are concerns in 2015 we cannot ignore after two full years of legalized possession and one year of legalized retail sales.
• Past-year and past-month marijuana use by all ages exceeds the national average in both Washington State and Colorado. Marijuana use in both these states has risen significantly between 2011-2012 and 2012-2013.
• Between 2008 and 2011, an average of 4 children (between the ages of 3 and 7) were sent to the ER for unintentional marijuana ingestion. In 2013, 8 children went to the Colorado Children’s hospital. As of the first half of 2014, at least 14 children have already been sent to the ER.
• According to the Washington Poison Center, “the selling of cannabis for recreational purposes became legalized in the state of Washington on July 7th, 2014. As a direct result, the Washington Poison Center (WAPC) has encountered an increase in the number of human exposures related to accidental or excessive consumption/inhalation of marijuana and marijuana edibles, particularly among pediatrics.”
• Edibles often contain more than three to twenty times the THC concentration recommended for intoxication. Manufacturing practices are not yet standardized in CO or WA, and childproof packaging remains a challenge. There have been at least 2 deaths related to marijuana edibles in 2014, and state officials still cannot agree on how to regulate them.
• Contaminant testing in Washington finds that 13% of pot and THC-infused products contain mold, salmonella, and E. coli. Colorado has not begun such testing yet.
• A marijuana-focused private equity firm, Privateer Holdings in partnership with the descendants of Bob Marley, have created a multinational cannabis brand called Marley Natural. Investors have already raised $50 million to launch Marley Natural.
Interestingly, however, these statistics might be prompting the beginning of a backlash. Hidden beneath the headlines of the American elections in 2014 was the fact that 26 out of 31 localities in Colorado voted to prohibit marijuana stores outright. Many of these localities had voted for the legalization ballot measure two years prior. And a Gallup poll taken in October of 2014 showed a 7 percentage point drop in the number of Americans supporting legalization – from 58% to 51%. Surely, legalization advocates – fueled now by a growing, profitable industry – are going to double down and move full steam ahead with their plans to legalize drugs.
As we are beginning to see, the promise that legalization will actually protect teenagers from marijuana is false. So, too, are the other promises of the legalizers. It is false to claim that marijuana legalization will break drug cartels. Those cartels will continue to traffic in harder and more lucrative drugs, such as heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine. Criminal cartels may well stay in the marijuana business, too, marketing directly to underage users. In fact, the black market has t