States are requiring those applying for welfare and unemployment benefits to undergo drug testing. High Times
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Tag Archive: Drug
Jun 02
Fail: Drug Czar Tries To Link Marijuana and Crime
The nation’s so-called ‘drug czar’, Gil Kerlikowske, convened a press conference last week to release new government data on drug use in America. The major talking points for the presentation were two fold: *Insist that cannabis is linked to crime *The public sentiment in favor of legalization is an unfortunate attraction to ‘bumper sticker solutions’ One …
May 16
Study: Student Drug Testing Programs Linked To Spikes In ‘Hard’ Drug Use
Schools that institute student drug testing programs are likely to experience a rise in students’ consumption of ‘hard’ drugs, according to observational trial data published this week in the Journal of Adolescent Health. Researchers at the University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research analyzed the impact of student drug testing programs in some 250,000 high-school …
Apr 30
New anti-marijuana campaign in Metro Detroit hopes to head off teen drug use
New anti-cannabis campaign in Metro Detroit hopes to head off teen drug use … has improved from 1 to 4 per cent in the 1960s and 1970s to virtually forty per cent cannabis consumers are four times as probably to report "D" grade averages states with medical marijuana legal guidelines have the most marijuana dependancy …
Apr 27
Government Accountability Office Says The Drug War Isn’t Working; Did Anybody Think It Was?
The federal government’s anti-drug efforts are inefficient and ineffective, according to a just released report issued by the Congressional watchdog agency, the General Accountability Office (GAO). As if we didn’t know. The GAO report assessed whether the Obama administration’s anti-drug strategies, as articulated by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (the ONDCP …
