The White House’s Latest Reefer MadnessTommi Avicolli-Meccabyline‚ May. 13‚ 2008Whom do you believe? A White House Office of National Drug Control Policy report which says that marijuana use by teens may increase depression and cause addiction, mental illness and suicide, or a study by British government scientists which concludes the opposite, that they are “unconvinced that there is a causal relationship” between pot and any “affective disorder?” On opposite sides of the Atlantic, both reports were issued last week. That they contradict each other shouldn’t come as a shock to any rational person who’s been following the marijuana debates. That the American report denounces marijuana while the British one doesn’t also shouldn’t surprise anyone. America has been under the grip of full-blown Reefer Madness for a long time, but more recently since the 60s when masses of young people began experimenting with the drug. |