The 5 Best Drug Scares of 2012
Meth babies, deadly energy drinks, fake pot, higher schools, and the drug that makes you eat people's faces
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2. The Kids Today: Always More Stoned Than Ever
Survey data indicate that almost half of Americans have tried pot by the time they graduate high school. But more powerful than the average teenager's urge to smoke pot is the average drug warrior's urge to warn that more teenagers are smoking pot than ever before. Last May the Partnership at Drugfree.org (formerly the Partnership for a Drug-Free America) announced that "heavy marijuana use" by teenagers was "up 80 percent since 2008." That press release generated stories with headlines like "Study: Teen Marijuana Use on the Rise," "Pot Use Soars Among Teens,Survey Finds," and "Survey: Teen Marijuana Use Surging"—even though the study cited by those articles, the Partnership Attitude Tracking Survey, actually showed that marijuana use by teenagers remained essentially unchanged between 2010 and 2011.
Drug czar Gil Kerlikowske argues that medical marijuana laws and efforts to legalize recreational use encourage teenagers to smoke pot by sending "the wrong message." That theory has never fit the facts very well, whether you look at cannabis consumption trends in relation to the enactment of medical marijuana laws or compare states with such laws to states without them. Now the latest Monitoring the Future Study indicates that marijuana use has declined among eighth-graders and 10th-graders while remaining steady among 12th-graders even as pot tolerance has hit record highs. Conversely, pot smoking by high school students remains substantially below the levels recorded in the late 1970s, when the idea of legalizing marijuana was much less popular.
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Predict the Drug Scare of 2013:
1. Adderall
2. Caffeine
3. Tylenol
4. Opioids
5. AnxiolyticsAnd my bonus, wild-card predictions: Video games/gun fanaticism.
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Already started: prescription painkillers (continued from previous years). The local morning news did a whole thingamabob on the "epidemic" this a.m.
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6. Sugar and high fructose corn syrup
Did you know that candy is available from vending machines? And that minors can buy soda without parental permission? If you're not outraged you're not paying attention.
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Damnit, if you put alcohol at #1 and move the rest down a notch you have my list of favorite drugs in order.
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"butt chugging" doesn't make the list?
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The obozo regime has released a revised, improved version of Reefer Madness wherein it becomes abundantly clear that pot makes you believe in individualism and laissez-faire capitalism.
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The researchers, led by Brown University psychologist Linda LaGasse, claimed to have identified “an important public health problem” that could “place tremendous burdens on society” based on small differences in test scores that may not even have been caused by meth exposure.
I bet that test score gap could be closed with Desoxyn
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So now test scores are a "public health" issue?
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What isn't? There is no sphere of human activity the government can't justify banning,controlling,regulating in the name of "public health".
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"Last May the Partnership at Drugfree.org (formerly the Partnership for a Drug-Free America) announced that "heavy marijuana use" by teenagers was "up 80 percent since 2008.""
As a general rule, any scare headline that talks about a percentage change without telling you the underlying raw numbers is useless.
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It seems a bit glib to make light of prenatal drug exposure. Believe it or not, despite the substantial benefits of methamphetamine and cocaine use in adults, it really can have negative effects on a fetus -- it's not just a conspiracy of the scientists with the newspaper publishers to sell more stories. Although obviously the article is referring to the overblown headline, you don't want to shoot your credibility in the foot by becoming a cheerleader for prenatal exposure to illicit drugs. It comes off bad enough when you cheer drug abuse by adults. Wanting something legalized doesn't necessarily mean you have to endorse it personally.
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