Hey liberals: don’t worry, obviously the expert in this story is not one of your experts who supports the Kyoto Accord. “Top U.S. drug-addiction research warns against decriminalizing marijuana”. This would be a different category of expert. You know, what you all call the “wrong” kind. Right?
VANCOUVER (CP) – A top American clinical researcher in the field of drug addiction warned Tuesday that decriminalizing marijuana could lead to increased abuse of the drug.
Studies show wider availability of a drug coupled with a relaxed attitude towards it help predict the level of use and addiction, said Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Volkow said surveys indicate that if a drug is considered safe and benign, its use spirals. Drug addiction rates can range from 20 to 30 per cent of users.
“The notion of legalizing and making drugs accessible, what it will do is ultimately increase the number of people that get exposed to the drug,” Volkow said in an interview.
“Some of those people will become addicted that may have not become addicted had it not been so easily accessible.”
The best examples, she said, are alcohol and tobacco, both widely available and relatively acceptable socially and with the most widespread addiction rates.
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A research psychiatrist, Volkow, 48, has published more than 200 papers and specializes in the study of brain imaging to investigate what role dopamine, the brain chemical that triggers sensations of pleasure and motivation, plays in addiction.
Volkow’s skepticism about marijuana is based partly on her experience.
She made her reputation in the 1980s with a ground-breaking study that discovered regular cocaine use caused tiny strokes. Coke was the drug of choice in the go-go ‘80s, popularly thought to be safe for recreational use.
“I had serious trouble getting that study published,” she said. “Nobody wanted to believe it.”
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