Marijuana youth

Federal Bureau of Narcotics, forerunner of the modern Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), begins a campaign that portrayed marijuana as a drug that led users to drug addiction, violence, and insanity. The government produced films such as Marihuana (1935), Reefer Madness (1936), and Assassin of Youth (1937). 

The National Household Survey on Drug Abuse found inhalants to be the second most commonly abused illicit drug by American youth ages 12-17 years, after marijuana. 

In 2001, the annual Monitoring the Future study (MTF), conducted by the University of Michigan and funded by the National Institute on Dmg Abuse, found that 17.1% of eighth graders had abused inhalants at some point in their lives. In 1995, the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse found inhalants to be the second most commonly abused illicit drug by American youth ages 12 years to 17 years, after marijuana. 

In a study of imprisoned youth in Canada, published in the October 1999 issue of the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, many participants cited inhalants as their first substance of abuse, preceding cigarettes, marijuana, illegal hallucinogens, and opiates. 

Christopher S. Wren, "Fewer Youths Report Smoking Marijuana," The New York Times, August 7, 1997. 

Look into the motionless stupor of the mind of a youth who has been sapped and destroyed by addiction. Incapable of reason, incapable of thought, today s addicted youth lives for only one thing his "fix," his "high." Then consider the body count of Britain s Opium War against the United States Over 48 million Americans, mostly between theages of 12 and 25 are officially known by the Drug Enforcement Administration to be frequent users of heroin, cocaine, and marijuana. Over one-fourth of the American people are severely wounded or dead in a war the country has not yet mobilized to fight. 

Alcohol is just one of many drugs used to facilitate rape. Others include marijuana, cocaine, benzodiazepines, barbiturates, chloral hydrate, methaqualone ( quaaludes ), heroin, morphine, and LSD. Three of the more commonly used drugs today—and the ones that are the focus of this book—are Rohypnol, gamma hydroxybutyrate ( GHB ), and ketamine. Though Rohypnol and GHB were initially used as recreational drugs at clubs and raves, word soon spread among American youth that these drugs could be used quite effectively to commit rape. 

Yet hemp did not disappear from the American landscape. As late as 1890, thirty-three million dollars worth of cordage was manufactured in the United States, and during World War I the hemp industry experienced a temporary revival. But the vast hemp plantations in Kentucky, Missouri, and Mississippi were gone forever. In later years it would even become illegal to grow hemp, as Americans learned that the once-commonplace plant was a "depraver of youth" and a "provoker of crime" called marijuana. 

Johnston,L.D. etal. 1981. Marijuana decriminalization The impact on youth 1975— MmitoringdieFuture. (Occasional Paper 13) University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, Ann Arbor, mi. 

Reducing the number of youthful marijuana users is just one goal of marijuana prohibition the larger goal is to reduce the number of... 

Lloyd Johnston, Patrick O Malley, and Jerald Bachman, Marijuana Decriminalization The Impact on Youth, 1975-1980, Monitoring the Future Oeeasional Paper 13. Ann Arbor, MI Institute for Social Research, 1981, pp. 

ONDCP has devoted significant resources to discouraging marijuana use, especially among young people. In Chapter 2, the Youth Substance Abuse Prevention Initiative begun in 1998 was described, which was primarily designed to reduce youth use of marijuana. In 2002, ONDCP began a Marijuana Initiative. The... 

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