"Drug harms in the UK: a multi-criteria decision analysis", by David Nutt, Leslie King and Lawrence Phillips, on behalf of the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs. The Lancet.
More facts.......
- $51,000,000,000 is spent annually on the War on Drugs
- 757,969 people were arrested in 2011 for marijuana violations, and 663,032 (86%) of these arrest were for possession ONLY!
- Currently, 18 states + the District of Columbia allow the use of Medical Marijuana
- 200,000+ students have lost their federal financial aid and eligibility because of possession convictions
- Most marijuana users never use any other illicit drugs, and for the majority of people it is a terminus rather than a "so called" gateway drug
- Claims about increased marijuana potency are vastly overstated
- Marijuana has NOT been shown to cause mental illness
- Marijuana use has not been shown to increase cancer risk
- Marijuana has proven helpful in treating a wide variety of medical issues
- Marijuana has NOT been shown to cause long term cognitive impairment
*Information retrieved 12/26/12 from The Drug Policy Alliance @ www.dpa.org. For more information, please visit DPA.org