Drug Czar John Walters Answers Questions About Drug Policies
To cap off the ONDCP's recent claimed victories in its war on drugs, John Walters has participated in a public question and answer session online for which the transcript is available here. There are a number of questions regarding marijuana's health effects and relevant policies.
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The indirectly referenced Reuters article is decent.
Among the howlers from the ONDCP transcript:
"Marijuana is a much larger part of our Nation’s dependency problem than most people realize. In fact, there are now more teens in treatment for marijuana dependency than for all other illegal drugs combined."
It's common knowledge that the referenced increase is a result of criminal sentencing, not voluntary treatment seeking.
But I've always wondered, why are allegedly independent academic policy analysts so shy to call liars liars?
Well, I've made a few comments now. Maybe others will be moved to do so now.
Posted by: Anon | March 16, 2006 01:58 PM