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Most researchers now classify the dangers of marijuana as on a par with those of alcohol. However, so far there is no scientific evidence on whether long-term use can produce effects comparable to alcohol's cirrhosis or tobacco's cancer and emphysema. Marijuana's active ingredients?chemicals known as...
Such efforts cannot work without the presence of deeper social values, whether they concern smoking, liquor or drugs. To help schools encourage such values, new drug curriculums are slowly replacing the venerable and largely ineffective assembly scare lecture. The programs that seem to have helped most are seminars where kids...
Even the proponents of legalization favor tight regulation of marijuana: no sales to children under 18, no advertising, laws against driving under its influence, federal quality controls, severe penalties for illegal pushing, and excise taxes to further discourage impecunious youthful purchasers. Such a policy would roughly parallel the nation's...
(9 of 10) marijuana is dangerous. Because it is dangerous, they are reluctant to allow work to be done on it. Because no work is done, people think of it as dangerous." Six months ago NIMH began growing its own marijuana for researchers on 23 acres of land owned by...
"If we cut off the supply of marijuana at its source, we will drive prices sky-high and effectively take it out of the hands of 90% of the kids," says Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst. Last year alone, U.S. officials estimate, 1,200 tons of marijuana were brought across...