{"id":5046,"date":"2008-10-22T21:44:48","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T05:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5046"},"modified":"2008-10-22T21:44:48","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T05:04:36","slug":"federal-anti-drug-commercials-encourage-pot-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5046","title":{"rendered":"Federal Anti-Drug Commercials Encourage Pot Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/view\/545416\/?sc=dwhn\">Excellent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The study <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajph.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/AJPH.2007.125849v1\">appears online<\/a> and in the December issue of the <em>American Journal of Public Health<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers surveyed 8,117 children from 1999 to 2001 and followed up with many of them over the next several years. The children were nine to18 years old when they were first recruited for the study, the same ages as the group targeted by the campaign\u2019s TV ads.<\/p>\n<p>Ninety-four percent of the kids reported seeing two to three of the anti-drug ads per week. But seeing the ads didn\u2019t reduce the likelihood that the children used marijuana. And it appeared that the ads possibly raised the risk that kids would be willing to try marijuana. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur basic hypothesis is that the more kids saw these ads, the more they came to believe that lots of other kids were using marijuana,\u201d Hornik said. \u201cAnd the more they came to believe that other kids were using marijuana, the more they became more interested in using it themselves.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/marijuana.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"marijuana\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5049\" \/>A spokesperson for the Feds said that their commercials are much, much better now than they were back in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Logically I shouldn&#8217;t care whether pot use numbers go up or down, but honestly, the more people smoke pot, the more pleased I feel. Perhaps I&#8217;m hoping that at some point anti-drug policies will become so obviously absurd that it will actually become politically viable to end the drug war. But it&#8217;s a stupid hope; we&#8217;ve had admitted past drug users in the White House time after time, and it doesn&#8217;t cause anyone to question our drug policies.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I just hate the drug war so much that I&#8217;m pleased by any evidence of its failure.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I just like the thought that somewhere out there, some people are happily stoned.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard for me to imagine how a sane drug policy could become politically viable, without a major sea change in both parties. Maybe it could happen first in one of the eastern liberal states, or one of the western libertarian states, and spread from there.<\/p>\n<p>Curtsy: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marriagedebate.com\/2008\/10\/study-federal-anti-drug-campaign-didnt.htm\">Marriagedebate<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent. The study appears online and in the December issue of the American Journal of Public Health. The researchers surveyed 8,117 children from 1999 to 2001 and followed up with many of them over the next several years. The children &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5046\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}