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Faith-Based Leaders and Community Activists Converge on State Capitol to Oppose Legalized Marijuana
Date:10/28/2009

nue and marijuana would likely follow a similar trend.

California State Senator George Runner, Jr. (R-Antelope Valley) noted, "Encouraging the public, particularly young people, to smoke marijuana in order to increase state revenue is reprehensible."

Consider these facts:

  • The National Institute on Drug Abuse states emphatically marijuana is addictive. According to the National Admissions to Substance Abuse Treatment Services (SAMHSA), each year, more teens enter treatment with a primary diagnosis of marijuana dependence than for all other illicit drugs combined.
  • According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which opposes the legalization of marijuana, any change in the legal status of marijuana, even if limited to adults, could affect the prevalence of use among adolescents. For example, tobacco and alcohol products, both legal for adults 18 and 21 years of age, are the psychoactive substances most widely abused by adolescents.
  • The AAP states the significant neuropharmacologic, cognitive, behavioral and somatic consequences of acute and long-term marijuana use are well known. Negative effects include those on short-term memory, concentration, attention span, motivation and problem solving, which clearly interfere with learning, adverse effects on coordination, judgment, reaction time and tracking ability. These effects contribute substantially to unintentional deaths and injuries among adolescents (particularly while driving) and negative health effects with repeated use similar to effects seen with smoking tobacco.
  • Drug policy in some foreign countries, particularly those in Europe, has gone through some dramatic changes toward greater liberalization with failed results. In the Netherlands, for example, after marijuana use became legal, consumption nearly tripled among 18-to-20 year-olds.
  • Marijuana is a gateway drug. Those in drug law enforcement say ra
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