Why does the US Government still want to continue to enforce marijuana prohibition? Recently the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) outlined their argument in a response to the New York Times’ editorial demanding an end to marijuana prohibition. Their argument? Well it was surprisingly weak says the Washington Post’s data journalist Christopher Ingraham. “It’s built on half-truths and radically decontextualized facts, curated from social science research that is otherwise quite solid,” he wrote in the Post’s WonkBlog. He also researched and refuted each point of the ONDCP’s poor or misleading arguments which we’re determined to promote. Check it out…
Why the Feds Still Support Marijuana Prohibition —Reason #3
Substance use in school age children has a detrimental effect on their academic achievement. Students who earned D’s or F’s were more likely to be current users of marijuana than those who earned A’s (45% vs. 10%).
This information comes from a CDC fact sheet. But what the ONDCP doesn’t report is that students who earned D’s or F’s are also more likely to be current drinkers of alcohol than those who earned A’s (62 percent vs. 32 percent). Setting aside that there’s zero causality implied in these findings, the only argument here is, again, for keeping marijuana and alcohol out of the hands of minors not for banning marijuana all together.
Tomorrow we’ll dispute the gov’s fourth farcical reason for continuing to enforce marijuana prohibition…
Let us know if you agree with the Government’s reasons for banning marijuana in the comments below…
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