Drug Facts Week in full swing « Drug WarRant Mr Guither over at DrugWarrant.com has some great facts he's been tweeting around: Time for government employees to earn their pay and actually regulate drugs rather than handing the job over to criminals. #drugfacts2011 21 minutes ago Fact: Blacks are 13 % of drug users, 39 % of those arrested, and 57 % of those convicted. bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 32 minutes ago Fact: Giving teens false scares on pot means they won't believe you when it comes to real dangers. bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 3 hours ago Fact: You don't protect kids from drug abuse by locking up adults for drug use. bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 8 hours ago Fact: Needle exchange programs save lives without increasing drug abuse. bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 11 hours ago Fact: People don't need to die from heroin overdose (regulated dose maintenance, Naloxone) bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 11 hours ago Fact: Strange addiction. 37 percent of pot admissions for treatment hadn't used in previous month. bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 11 hours ago Fact: Psilocybin use can lead to more open, curious, intellectually engaged, creative people. bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 11 hours ago What if we tested musicians for pot? Louis Armstrong, Willie Nelson, Bob Marley, Dizzy Gillespie…National Drug Facts Week Real #drugfacts2011 11 hours ago The Drug War doesn't care about the life of your child. Legalize and regulate for safety. bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 21 hours ago Fact: Marijuana has not been shown to cause mental illness. bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 21 hours ago Every drug dealer arrest creates a new high-paying job opening. The same is not true of rapists. bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 21 hours ago Fact: There's no compelling evidence that cannabis contributes substantially to traffic fatalities. bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 21 hours ago Fact: Cannabis use is not linked to the so-called “amotivational syndrome†bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 21 hours ago Fact: Since a tiny percentage are problem drug users, blanket enforcement wastes money and lives. bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 21 hours ago Fact: for the vast majority of people, drug use goes away much easier than drug convictions. bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 1 Nov Fact: you have a better chance of dying from an overdose of aspirin or water than cannabis. bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 1 Nov Drug test to avoid hiring the next Steve Jobs, Freud, Michael Phelps, Barack Obama, or Carl Sagan bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 1 Nov Fact: Prohibition is not regulation. Age restrictions only exist for legal, regulated drugs. bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 1 Nov Fact: Most deaths attributed to heroin are, in fact, caused by black market factors. bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 1 Nov Fact: More people have died from marijuana arrests than from marijuana overdoses. bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 1 Nov Fact: Due to drug war, U.S. incarcerates over 5X more black males than S. Africa during Apartheid. bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 1 Nov Fact: Talk to 800,000 arrested for pot each year re: Drug Czar's so-called “balanced approach†bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 1 Nov DEA Judge Young called cannabis “one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man†bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 31 Oct Fact: Study proves legalizing medical marijuana doesn't lead to increased teen use. bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 31 Oct Fact: The government has known since 1974 that cannabis fights cancer. bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 31 Oct Fact: For over 30 years, the federal government has been providing medical marijuana to patients. bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 31 Oct Fact: The Drug Czar has been caught lying about drugged driving statistics. bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 31 Oct Fact: The Drug Czar is required by law to oppose legalization efforts, regardless of the facts. bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 31 Oct Fact: NIDA only supports research pre-intending to find negatives about drugs. Science? bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 31 Oct Fact: Increased drug law enforcement leads to increased violence bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 31 Oct Most marijuana admissions to the $20 billion treatment industry are criminal justice referrals bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 31 Oct Fact: Prohibition makes drug use more dangerous. bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 31 Oct Fact: Unlike most FDA-approved drugs, nobody has ever died from an overdose of marijuana. bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 30 Oct Fact: Most marijuana users never use any other illicit drug. What gateway? bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 30 Oct Fact: NIDA-funded study showed no increased cancer risk for even heavy cannabis smokers. bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 30 Oct It's National Drug Facts Week. Teens are best served by real facts, not propaganda. bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 30 Oct Just say know next week. Know all the drug facts and drug war facts, and not just the propaganda. bit.ly/qqZxJT Real #drugfacts2011 29 Oct
Wow, what a list! Good stuff, Nefarious. And I'm a huge believer that if you lie to your kids about pot, you are actully harming them more. They're going to try it eventually. When they do, they're going to find out they've been lied to about cannabis. Then, they're going to begin to wonder if they've been lied to about other unmentionables, and that can lead to them trying other, more dangerous substances that they're just not ready to handle.
Agreed. You need to be the one who educates your kids about drugs and what they can do . In every aspect of what drug use can do both the pros and cons. Even though its a kinda corny and over used phrase its does ring true: knowledge is power.
One of the things people will have to get used too if Ron Paul is elected is that they can no longer expect the government to teach their kids morality or values,,parents have to be parents again.