Get a Clue - Weed

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(The drug use infused lies continue – Let’s not let facts get in the way of a good marijuana myth!)

We also don’t have good data for state prisons — where more than 87 percent of US prison inmates are held, based on federal data. But we do know that a minority of state prisoners are in for drugs: In 2015, 3.4 percent of all state prisoners were in for drug possession and 11.7 percent were in for other drug-related crimes. So, again, only a fraction of prisoners are locked up due to drug prohibition in general, much less marijuana prohibition in particular.

We do have some good data for the federal system. According to the US Sentencing Commission, 92 of nearly 20,000 people — fewer than half a percent — sentenced for drug offenses during fiscal year 2017 were locked up due to simple possession of marijuana. And drug cases made up less than a third of cases reported by the Sentencing Commission that year. Not all of these people were sentenced to prison; some got probation instead.

Based on the data we do have, though, it’s fair to say that marijuana prohibition — and even the war on drugs more broadly — is not the major driver of mass incarceration.

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Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS) is a condition that sometimes develops due to the use of marijuana. The syndrome causes repeated and severe vomiting and nausea.

It is important for people with CHS to stop using marijuana because this will resolve their nausea and vomiting. Preventing dehydration and stopping nausea and vomiting are the treatment goals during the hyperemesis stage of the condition.

When people with CHS stop using marijuana, their symptoms of nausea and vomiting usually disappear. Nausea and vomiting tend to return if they start using marijuana again.

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Marijuana is the Number 1 substance now found in suicides of young people in Colorado who are 15-19 years old. Go to the below Colorado website and click on the box that lists “methods, circumstances and toxicology” and then click on the box for 15-19 years olds. The marijuana data found here

Marijuana and Suicide – The Legalization of Marijuana in Colorado: The Impact Vol 6

In suicides in the age range 10 – 19 the most significant drug involved was Marijuana (Pages 41-46)

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But what’s been a beacon of hope for North American drug policy reformers could be regressing towards punitive approaches that Americans are all too familiar with. On September 30, Rui Moreira, the mayor of Porto, contradicted his past pro-harm reduction positions, like the ones made at the 2019 Harm Reduction International conference in his own city, when he endorsed reintroducing criminal penalties for drug use in public spaces during a municipal assembly meeting.

Drug decriminalization “is not possible,” he said in the meeting, adding that such policies have “consented” to illegal drug trafficking. The mayor expressed he is “a little tired of hearing just about the dignity” of people who use drugs, adding that the policy of decriminalization “simply does not protect the overwhelming majority of the population.” To address this problem that he says is “everywhere,” Rureira is advocating for the installation of over 100 new video surveillance cameras to monitor public streets in an attempt to clamp down on drug use.

(Dalgarno Institute – We may not be able to ‘arrest’ our way out of the drug mess. Be rest assured, we will never ‘treat’ our way out of it either – that ‘damage management’ model only generates greater (and almost invariably, irreversible) mess.

We can, in time, PREVENT our way out of it #preventdontpromote. We were told the legal and completely socially acceptable drug of tobacco would never be dealt with. But here we are with the lowest daily tobacco use in the world. As with the QUIT campaign #DemandReduction We need One Focus – One Message – One Voice in the illicit drug space and that cannot be ‘normalisation’, which is the current nefarious narrative being ‘pushed’ by the promoters and permitters of drug use in our social-political arenas.

Permission, NOT prohibition is putting an entire generation at risk, not only of acute harms, but chronic, often irreversible harms, that no amount of taxpayer funded ‘health care’ will rectify. It’s time to reduce demand, primary prevent and promote drug use exiting #recovery.

You community, your family and your children deserve this – not the harm facilitating agenda of the pro-drug minority.)

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One year after the legalization of recreational use of cannabis in Canada, the black market for the drug — as well as its use behind the wheel — continues to keep Quebec police forces busy.

In 2018, police collected 795 blood samples from motorists suspected of driving while under the influence, and sent them to Quebec’s medical legal centre for processing. That’s 254 more than in the previous year. The presence of cannabis was detected in 46 per cent of those cases.

More than 670 officers trained in drug use evaluation have been deployed across the province. (WHAT MORE Law Enforcement? Legalization was supposed to “slash the cost of law enforcement and add to the bottom line of the budget!”)

IMeanwhile, raids on illegal outdoor cannabis fields were carried out in August and September, and saw 37,000 plants seized.

Over the past year, the SQ seized 71,500 cannabis plants, 161 kilograms of cannabis, 15.8 kilograms of cannabis oil and resin, 23,460 units of edible cannabis and $180,000 in cash.

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