The Fix: Don't Believe The (Marijuana) Hype
What most people think they know about marijuana—especially media columnists—is just years of unscientific, paranoid, and even racist government propaganda.
http://www.thefix.com/content/Maia-Szalavitz-pot-addiction-health2100
Everyone thinks they know something about drugs—whether from personal experience or from 8th grade prevention classes or simply because the media presents so many stories about them. Unfortunately, most of what people think they know is inaccurate, and comes from years of government war-on-drugs propaganda, with little understanding of its medical and historical context.
Take last week’s absurd anti-marijuana columns and tweets from some of the backbones of the media establishment: the New York Times’ David Brooks, Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post and Tina Brown, former New Yorker editor and founder of the Daily Beast.
Both Brooks and Marcus told stories of their own youthful pot smoking—neither of which seems to have led to any lasting negative consequences as is the case for the overwhelming majority of marijuana users. Yet both claimed—without apparently understanding that relying on a single study that has been questioned in a follow up by the same journal is not accurately reporting “fact”—that marijuana definitively lowers IQ.
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