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The White House Office on National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP -- the drug czar's office) has failed on its own terms when it comes to marijuana policy, according to a pair of reports examining government data by a noted marijuana researcher.

Based on the government's own numbers, ONDCP has failed to achieve its stated 2002 goal of reducing marijuana use by 25% by 2007, Gettman found. According to the national survey, last year there were 14.5 million pot smokers, compared with 14.6 million in 2002.

From 2002 to 2007 annual use of marijuana declined slightly from 25.9 to 25.1 million. The number of Americans who have used marijuana at some point in their lives actually increased, from 95 million in 2002 to over 100 million in 2007.

It has not significantly reduced marijuana consumption despite constantly increasing annual arrest numbers and ongoing propaganda campaigns, while at the same time it twists and distorts figures on people in treatment for "marijuana dependency" in order to falsely claim that marijuana is a dangerous drug, while in reality, less than half of all people treated for marijuana even fit the standard criteria for substance abuse.

"The Bush Administration has failed to reduce or control marijuana use in the United States," Gettman concluded. "Marginal changes in marijuana and other drug use have been distorted to support false claims that incremental progress in reducing marijuana and other drug use has been achieved.

Marijuana use is fundamentally the same as when the Bush Administration took office and illicit drug use overall has increased. Drug use data do not support Bush Administration claims that its policies have had a significant impact on illicit drug use in the United States."

The stability -- not reduction -- in marijuana use comes despite at least 127 different anti-marijuana TV, radio, and print ads by ONDCP, in addition to at least 34 press releases focused mainly on marijuana and at least 50 reports from ONDCP or other government agencies on marijuana or anti-marijuana campaigns.

For ONDCP head John Walters, slight reductions in teen marijuana use meant that "teens are getting the message about the harms of marijuana and are changing their behavior -- for the better, as he noted in a September 2007 press release. Still, he was forced to admit in the next breath that "youth abuse of prescription drugs remains a troubling concern."

"The government's own statistics demolish the White House drug czar's claims of success in his obsessive war on marijuana," said Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) in Washington, DC.

"The most intense war on marijuana since 'Reefer Madness,' including record numbers of arrests every year since 2003, has wasted billions of dollars and produced nothing except pain and ruined lives."

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75 responses // War on Marijuana is working...

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    I hate war, especially on my green ally!

    bonemachine
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    not a wast for someone they got billions!

    We got the pain and ruined lives that we paid billions for.

    Thanks for looken out for me.

    JETaylor
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    Wow..... what a difference. Marijuana is far from dangerous. Has anyone herd of Salvia? What a bunch of excuses. How much more brainwashed can you be? Just like everything else the government has an excuse for. America is about to fall into a depression when all they have to do is make marijuana legal and they most likely would make enough money back to sustain our economy. The only reason I could think of is because cigarettes and cigarettes will cease to exist if Green is made legal. Which means those tobacco farmers will just have to start growing pot. CIGARETTES ARE GROSS! They smell terrible, like assinine and they also make people sick. People can get drunk and act like idiots but they can't make green legal so people can stop whiling out? It would make a lot of people get off the streets and crime would probably be at an all time low because innocent marijuana users count for over half of arrest anyways. Police will actually be able to do there job. Marriages might be able to stay together if they can just chill out and smoke a dubby with there loved ones. I mean seriously WAKE UP! It shouldn't be this serious. People who do smoke should set an example and stop falling into the "pot head" stereo type and act like they have some sense. It's the way the media portrays marijuana. It will remain illegal as long as people remain to act like it's a gangster drug. Hmmmm I wounder why gangsters are becoming more and more. Because it's illegal!!! There making all the money and buying there rims, when the government could be using that money for our economy.

    5thElement
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    legalize it!

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    I don't understand why they don't understand.

    pokesmot
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    It makes too much money on the black market. Weed is good for the cops because it keeps them going to work. It good for the people who likes it and its bad because..........well.................what is bad about Marijuana?

    Creator
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    Smoking the herb breaks the power of the koolaid that they force feed people from their youth. When you fire up, you start to see the flimsiness of all the lies you've been told by society at large about the true nature of life. That's why they will never legalize it and those of us who have found it to be a wonderful thing will always be persecuted.

    isnamthere
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    Peace for all, think Green!

    googolplexer
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    legalize marijuana and we will...
    1. save money on prisons
    2. make money by taxing the growers and users
    3. save money on medications. the money saved would eventually be put back into the economy.
    4. make more hemp products to sell.
    5. possibly make a clean fuel source
    6. growing the plants would help scrub out c02 from our air
    7. harvesting this crop will make many new jobs.farming, manufacturing, new jobs for truck drivers to deliver the product, and many more
    8. cut back on crime rates. thats what happened when they did away with prohibition

    Boost our economy, clean our planet, stop ruining lives, create jobs.
    what are we waiting for?

    Oh wait, thats rite the people dont run this country. we were so silly thinking we actually had a say in things

    Big_Black
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    Legalize it and stop the bullshit.

    The war on drugs is a moral battle after all. Back in the day, they tried prohibition and realized that all it did was create an underground black market, along with all of the violence that goes along with it.

    Why was prohibition enacted? Because the moral majority of the day felt that alcohol was driving people to evil deeds. Sound familiar?

    They say that those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Here's a great testament to that adage.

    Legalize it and tax it. Turn it from a budget drain to a budget gain. Take the tax revenues and use them for drug counseling and education. Fight the battle, but fight it smart.

    JamieGray
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    Decriminalize it, utilize it, and I WILL advertise it!!

    simplecj
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    I love marijuana, fuck you government.! If only I had some weed, then I would be high. right now.

    pete0312
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    Drug prohibition does more to make Americans unsafe than any other factor. Just as alcohol prohibition gave us Al Capone and the mafia, drug prohibition has given us the Crips, the Bloods and drive-by shootings. Consider the historical evidence: America's murder rate rose nearly 70% during alcohol prohibition, but returned to its previous levels after prohibition ended. Now, since the War on Drugs began, America's murder rates have doubled. The cause/effect relationship is clear. Prohibition is putting innocent lives at risk.

    What's more, drug prohibition also inflates the cost of drugs, leading users to steal to support their high priced habits. It is estimated that drug addicts commit 25% of all auto thefts, 40% of robberies and assaults, and 50% of burglaries and larcenies. Prohibition puts property at risk. Finally, nearly one half of all police resources are devoted to stopping drug trafficking, instead of preventing violent crime. The bottom line? By ending drug prohibition we would double the resources available for crime prevention, and significantly reduce the number of violent criminals at work in our neighborhood.

    critic
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    With this bullshit Trillion dollar (yep, I said trillion)bailout, they're going to need to make some budget cuts.

    I can think of one big one! Andit might actually generate revenue.

    delas78
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    that war don't affect me...pass that..:)

    natdagod
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    There's major money in selling weed if you got the know how.

    Those with the know how don't want it legalized. Then you can't make over a grand selling a pound to someone because every other dealer on the block don't have a connection because he got busted.

    Keep it illegal and give the drug dealers and gangsters a chance!

    wierdobeardo
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    embrace the gift of nature and science.

    sasquatch88
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    At least stop putting people in jail for it.

    It saddens me to think of the good people put in jail that have learned bad things in prison.

    bigred5
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    Legalize it....

    + it's just a cool looking plant, and the smell is godly.

    Anything made by the eye in the sky is OK by me..

    Horntho
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    i personally think that marijuana should be legal,but with a limit..no no no,not cards to show you can smoke..im talking about spending and addiction...i think we should have a limit of how much we buy a day/week/etc...

    eodaniel
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    As I am on my way to purchase a sack right now !

    PEACE

    BIOHAZARD
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    I think that marijuana helps people with the problems that they have in life, and helps people with pain.

    tek909
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    I think that mariguana helps people for their problems and their adiction . Also helps make it legal but also have a limit for it because we dont want people to get adictid.

    alexis123
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    Honestly, I don't see what's so wrong about it, when was the last time a pot head did something dangerous? Occasionally they drive some place to get their munchies fix, but where do they go after the food? Back to where ever they were smoking, and besides that it could help with anorexic people. And a final thought on THIS subject is, if it were to be legalized and taxed, our current President's debt, would be nothing nothing, because if we taxed it, we would be out of our debt in a matter of years.

    Aqua_Monkey
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    I don't think it should be legalized. The summer before my freshman year in high school most of my close friends got into drugs(mainly weed) and tried to persuade me to join in even though they knew about my religious beliefs. They became so persistent I couldn't be around them for more than 5 minutes without them talking about going to meet their dealer or how fun it was to get "fucked up". Within a few months I had lost all of my closest friends because of weed. I hate weed. I really really hate it.

    Also, for those who thinks that weed doesn't cause brain damage(I know quite a few who think it safe), I asked one of my old friends that smoked weed and he said he noticed that he was slower after smoking for such a long time, but he just didn't care.

    Johnny_Danger
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