Pot Prohibition, Regulation and Danger to the Young, January 28, 2013

Published February 2, 2013

Pot Prohibition, Regulation and Danger to the Young, January 28, 2013

Filed under: Drug Treatment Help Phoenix

Individuals who say they first used marijuana before age 15 are 10 times as likely to meet the criteria for addiction involving marijuana at some point in their lives as those who say they first used the drug at age 21 or older. Young marijuana users …
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Marijuana prohibition an expensive failure

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White House drug czar Gil Kerlikowske insists that even allowing medicinal pot “sends a terrible message” to adolescents. Mitchell Rosenthal, a psychiatrist who founded the substance-abuse treatment group Phoenix House, says there is “mounting evidence …
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Drug resistant infections are on the rise

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PHOENIX — Everyone's attention is focused on the flu right now, but recently an infection showed up for the first time in North America, and it is resistant to current drugs. It's just one of the diseases that beat our best medicine. In films like …
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