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DANGERS TO NON USERS: DRUGGED DRIVERS

analysis of U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration Demand Reduction Section May 2014 The Dangers and Consequences of Marijuana Abuse



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DANGERS TO NON USERS: DRUGGED DRIVERS

Drugged driving, also referred to as impaired driving, is driving under the influence of alcohol, over-the-counter-medications, prescription drugs, or illegal drugs. o The principal concern regarding drugged driving is that driving under the influence of any drug that acts on the brain could impair one's motor skills, reaction time, and judgment. Drugged driving is a public health concern because it puts not only the driver at risk, but also passengers and others who share the road.142

o In Montana, where there has been an enormous increase in "medical" marijuana cardholders, Narcotics Chief Mark Long told a legislative committee in April 2010 that "DUI arrests involving marijuana have skyrocketed, as have traffic fatalities where marijuana was found in the system of one of the drivers."143

o In Washington State, where marijuana use was legalized for recreational purposes, state police have noticed that significantly more drivers being stopped are testing positive for 25

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marijuana. Toxicology reports show that in the first six months of 2013, the percentage of driving cases where the driver tested positive for delta-9-THC rose by 33 percent. From 2011 to 2012, there was a 7.9 percent decrease. This increase is especially notable because Washington had increased the legal limit of THC in the blood. 144

o The Las Vegas, Nevada Metropolitan Police Department reports that they have a large problem with people using marijuana and driving, and that the problem is getting worse. During the last three years, the Department's forensics lab screened 4,500 blood samples for marijuana, with the bulk of those being impaired drivers. Department statistics show that if police were able to test each impaired driver involved in a fatal crash today, one in ten would likely test positive for marijuana. "If it continues on this path, in the next five or six years, we could see marijuana and other non-alcoholic drugs overtake our DUI problems with alcohol," Sergeant Todd Raybuck of the Department's Traffic Bureau said. Statewide records from 2002 to 2012 revealed that 45 percent of drivers who were impaired by drugs had marijuana in their system.145

o In 2012 there were 10.3 million persons aged 12 and older who reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs during the past year. The rate was highest among young adults aged 18 to 25.146

o Drugs that may affect driving were detected in one of every seven weekend nighttime drivers in California during the summer of 2012. In the first California statewide roadside survey of alcohol and drug use by drivers, 14 percent of drivers tested positive for drugs and 7.4 percent of drivers tested positive for alcohol, and just as many as tested positive for marijuana as alcohol. 147 o Since 2000, Liberty Mutual Insurance and Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) have been conducting a study of teens driving under the influence. o The 2013 survey found that nearly one in four teens admits to driving under the influence of marijuana, alcohol, and prescription drugs.

o They also found that driving under the influence of marijuana (16 percent) is a greater threat than driving under the influence of alcohol (15 percent). o There are 13 million driving-aged teenagers on the road; 23 percent admit to driving under the influence of alcohol or other drugs. That means that there may be 3 million impaired teen drivers on the road. o Of the teens responding to the survey, 25 percent felt that driving under the influence of marijuana was not distracting; 23 percent felt that driving under the influence of prescription drugs was not distracting; and, 14 percent felt that driving under the influence of alcohol not distracting. o What is even more astounding is that 75 percent of teens who have driven under the influence of marijuana believe it had no impact or even improves their driving and 26

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38 percent of teens who admit to drinking and driving claim that alcohol had no impact or even improved their driving.148 o The 2014 survey focused on safe driving, and although it focused mainly on alcohol, they did find that there is a sharp disconnect between what teens acknowledge as risky behavior and what they actually admit to doing behind the wheel. Some of the teens (21 percent) defined a designated driver as someone basically sober (only having had "a little" alcohol or other drugs), and 4 percent described it as the most sober person in the group.149 o A 2013 study examining the data from the 2001 to 2011 Monitoring the Future Surveys found that one out of every four (28 percent) high school seniors either drove or rode with a driver who was under the influence of alcohol or other illicit drugs, with the percentage of high school seniors driving after smoking marijuana almost three times greater than alcohol impaired drivers. Driving after drinking has declined in recent years but driving after using marijuana has increased.150 o According to researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, the prevalence of non-alcoholic drugs detected in fatally injured drivers in the U.S. has been steadily rising and has tripled between 1999 and 2010 for drivers who tested positive for marijuana. Drugs combined with alcohol created an even greater risk for driving fatalities. Joanne Brady, a PhD candidate in epidemiology and lead author of the study, noted that "the marked increase in its prevalence as reported in the present study is likely germane to the growing decriminalization of marijuana. Although each of these states has laws that prohibit driving under the influence of marijuana, it is still conceivable that its decriminalization may result in increases in crashes involving marijuana."151

o A study in the British Medical Journal on the consequences of cannabis impaired driving found that drivers who consume cannabis within three hours of driving are nearly twice as likely to cause a vehicle collision as those who are not under the influence of drugs or alcohol.152 o Researchers at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation in Maryland studied a government data base on traffic fatalities and examined the data from 44,000 drivers involved in single-vehicle crashes who died between 1999 and 2009. They found that 24.9 percent of the drivers tested positive for drugs and 37 percent had blood-alcohol levels in excess of .08, the legal limit. The study is one of the first to show the prevalence of drug use among fatally injured drivers. Among the drivers who tested positive for drugs, 22 percent were positive for marijuana, 22 percent for stimulants, and 9 percent for narcotics.153

o In a study of seriously injured drivers admitted to a Maryland Level-1 shock-trauma center, 65.7 percent were found to have positive toxicology results for alcohol and/or drugs. Almost 51 percent of the total tested positive for illegal drugs. A total of 26.9 percent of the drivers tested positive for marijuana.154

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o The percentage of fatally injured drivers testing positive for drugs increased over the last five years according to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). In 2009, 33 percent of the 12,055 drivers fatally injured in motor vehicle crashes with known test results tested positive for at least one drug compared to 28 percent in 2005. In 2009, marijuana was the most prevalent drug found in this population ' approximately 28 percent of fatally injured drivers who tested positive tested positive for marijuana.155

o Recognizing that drugged driving is a serious health and safety issue, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) has called for a science-based educational campaign targeting drugged driving behavior. In January of 2008, Deputy Director Paul Armentano released a report titled, Cannabis and Driving, noting that motorists should be discouraged from driving if they have recently smoked cannabis and should never operate a motor vehicle after having consumed both marijuana and alcohol. The report also calls for the development of roadside, cannabis-sensitive technology to better assist law enforcement in identifying drivers who may be under the influence of pot.156

o In a 2007 National Roadside Survey of alcohol and drug use by drivers, a random sample of weekend nighttime drivers across the United States found that 16.3 percent of the drivers tested positive for drugs, compared to 2.2 percent of drivers with blood alcohol concentrations at or above the legal limit. Drugs were present more than 7 times as frequently as alcohol.157

o According to a NIDA funded study, a large number of American adolescents are putting themselves and others at great risk by driving under the influence of illicit drugs or alcohol. In 2006, 30 percent of high school seniors reported driving after drinking heavily or using drugs, or riding in a car whose driver had been drinking heavily or using drugs, as least once in the prior two weeks. Dr. Patrick O'Malley, lead author of the study, observed that "Driving under the influence is not an alcohol-only problem. In 2006, 13 percent of seniors said they drove after using marijuana while ten percent drove after having five or more drinks." "Vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death among those aged 15 to 20," added Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of NIDA. "Combining the lack of driving experience among teens with the use of marijuana and/or other substances that impair cognitive and motor abilities can be a deadly combination." 158

o A June 2007 toxicology study conducted at the University of Maryland's Shock-Trauma Unit in Baltimore found that over 26 percent of injured drivers tested positive for marijuana. In an earlier study, the U.S. National Survey on Drug Use and Health estimated that 10.6 million Americans had driven a motor vehicle under the influence of drugs during the previous year. 159

o A study of over 3000 fatally-injured drivers in Australia showed that when marijuana was present in the blood of the driver they were much more likely to be at fault for the accident. And the higher the THC concentration, the more likely they were to be culpable.160

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o NHTSA has found that marijuana significantly impairs one's ability to safely operate a motor vehicle. According to its report, "[e]pidemiology data from road traffic arrests and fatalities indicate that after alcohol, marijuana is the most frequently detected psychoactive substance among driving populations." Problems reported include: decreased car handling performance, inability to maintain headway, impaired time and distance estimation, increased reaction times, sleepiness, lack of motor coordination, and impaired sustained vigilance.161


summary: drug_related = 100%, drugwar_propaganda = 100%

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incarceration/prison mentioned? NO - the issue of prison or incarceration was NOT mentioned in this article .

propaganda analysis


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asserted: $government_prohib at 80% ("Nora Volkow" "Volkow"), 2 hits
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 drug of abuse implied / mentioned

drug related
[news] [concept]

legalization prohibition agency illegal drugs drug ngo prohibitionist drug reformer  
drugwar_propaganda : a drug war propaganda event, campaign release, slogan, or themepropaganda

drugwar propaganda
[news] [concept]

propaganda theme2 propaganda theme3 propaganda theme5 propaganda theme7 propaganda theme4 Why Are Americans So Easy to Manipulate? (Bruce E Levine, 2012)
Classic Modern Drug Propaganda
Themes in Chemical Prohibition
Drug War Propaganda (kindle edition)
propaganda_theme2 : drug war propaganda theme: madness, violence, illness caused by drugsmadness, violence, illness

propaganda theme2
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"deadly" "fatalities" "fatal" "fatally" "fatally-injured" "threat" "death" "DANGERS" "impaired" "impair" "impairs" "problem" "problems" "DRUGGED DRIVERS" "accidents" "accident" "driving under the influence" "health and safety"50Madness Crime Violence Illness (propaganda theme 2)
drugwarfacts.org/crime.htm
drugwarfacts.org/causes.htm
Distortion 18: Cannabis and Mental Illness
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propaganda theme3 75%
[news] [concept]

"American" "Americans" "public health"4Survival of Society (propaganda theme 3)
The "Nation" as a Device To Create a Psychological Crowd
 use is abuse

use is abuse
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drugwarfacts.org/addictiv.htm
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drugwarfacts.org/adolesce.htm
Think of the children
propaganda_theme7 : drug war propaganda theme: total prohibiton or accesstotal prohibition

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"legalized" "decriminalization" "marijuana use was legalized" legalization4Total Prohibition or Access (propaganda theme 7)
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illegal drugs
[news] [concept]

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[news] [concept]
drug reform ngo  
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"Marijuana Laws"1 
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paul armentano  
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[news] [concept]
norml Mapinc.org Drug Reform Organization link database
 NORML

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"National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws" "NORML" paul armentano2norml.org
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"Paul Armentano" "Armentano"2 
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Prohibitionism
Cognitive liberty
Lobbyists Getting Rich Off Drug War (2012)
Calvina Fay halts interview, 8/2013
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"Nora Volkow" "Volkow"2A Drug War Carol, page 22
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"police" "law enforcement" "NIDA"7Drug Enforcement Administration
drugwarfacts.org/military.htm
trac.syr.edu/tracdea/
dare.procon.org
The Top Five Special Interest Groups Lobbying To Keep Marijuana Illegal
 legalization
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plants
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[news] [concept]
cannabis  
 depressant intoxicant
[news] [concept]
alcohol  
medical_cannabis : cannabis for medical usemedical cannabis 90%
[news] [concept]
""medical" marijuana" ""medical"" "medical" marijuana" "marijuana."151 o A study in the British Medical"4medicalmarijuanaprocon.org/
drugwarfacts.org/medicalm.htm
mapinc.org/mmj.htm
mapinc.org/find?253
The Flower (video cartoon)
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[news] [concept]
"Narcotics"2Managing Pain
 alcohol
[news] [concept]
"alcoholic" "alcohol" "alcohol-only" "been drinking"30Stanton Peele Addiction Web Site
drugwarfacts.org/alcohol.htm
Pot Threatens Booze Profits
cannabis : cannabis (marijuana) product or usecannabis
[news] [concept]
"marijuana" "cannabis" "cannabis-sensitive" "pot" "THC" medical cannabis42Cannabis: Religious and Spiritual Uses
Cannabis-Driving Studies
MAPInc.org Cannabis Link DB
medicalmarijuanaprocon.org
cannabisnews.com/
cannabisculture.com
Schaffer Library: Marijuana
drugwarfacts.org/marijuan.htm
mapinc.org/pot.htm
U.S. Prisons Thriving on Jim Crow Marijuana Arrests (2013)
 various drugs 95%
[news] [concept]
"DRUGGED" "drugs" "drug"65 
 various illegal drugs
[news] [concept]
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drugwarfacts.org
DEA's Drugs of Abuse booklet
drugwarfacts.org/drugtest.htm
 youth
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mapinc.org/youth.htm
 school
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Sentence-By-Sentence Analysis

(1) DANGERS TO NON USERS: DRUGGED DRIVERS Drugged driving, also referred to as impaired driving, is driving under the influence of alcohol, over-the-counter-medications, prescription drugs, or illegal drugs. o The principal concern regarding drugged driving is that driving under the influence of any drug that acts on the brain could impair one's motor skills, reaction time, and judgment .

re: "DANGERS", "impaired", "impair", "DRUGGED DRIVERS", "driving under the influence" - Prohibition propaganda rarely misses an opportunity to link crime, violence, and insanity with "drugs". The propagandist insinuates that prohibited drugs cause evil, and if it weren't for "drugs" bad things would not exist. (Madness Crime Violence Illness (propaganda theme 2) )

(7) Department statistics show that if police were able to test each impaired driver involved in a fatal crash today, one in ten would likely test positive for marijuana .

re: "fatal", "impaired" - Prohibitionist propaganda claims that horrible dangers are caused by "drugs." (Madness Crime Violence Illness (propaganda theme 2) )

(9) Statewide records from 2002 to 2012 revealed that 45 percent of drivers who were impaired by drugs had marijuana in their system.145 o In 2012 there were 10.3 million persons aged 12 and older who reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs during the past year .

re: "impaired", "driving under the influence" - Drugs, claim the prohibitionist, cause insanity, violence, and terrible sickness. (Madness Crime Violence Illness (propaganda theme 2) )

(14) Driving after drinking has declined in recent years but driving after using marijuana has increased.150 o According to researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, the prevalence of non-alcoholic drugs detected in fatally injured drivers in the U.S. has been steadily rising and has tripled between 1999 and 2010 for drivers who tested positive for marijuana .

re: "fatally" - The rhetoric of prohibition asserts that insanity, crime, and violence are caused by drugs, or are controlled by prohibition. (Madness Crime Violence Illness (propaganda theme 2) ) re: "Public Health" - "Engels undoubtedly, in his own as well as in Marx's name, suggests to the leader of the German workers' party that the word 'state' be struck out of the programme and replaced by the word 'community'." -- Lenin, 1917 (Survival of Society (propaganda theme 3) )

(15) Drugs combined with alcohol created an even greater risk for driving fatalities .

re: "fatalities" - Drugs, scream prohibitionists, cause all bad things in life: crime, violence, insanity, etc. If not for prohibition (i.e., jailing drug users), then criminality, violence and psychotic behavior would explode upon the land, the prohibitionist assures us. (Madness Crime Violence Illness (propaganda theme 2) )

(16) Joanne Brady, a PhD candidate in epidemiology and lead author of the study, noted that "the marked increase in its prevalence as reported in the present study is likely germane to the growing decriminalization of marijuana .

re: "decriminalization" - The ancient and first commandment (Mat 22:38, Mark 12:28) is, "Thou shall not legalize the herb." (Gen 1:29-30) To be seen of men (Mat 23:5), thou shalt make thy righteousness (Isa 64:6) of thine holy rulers (1Chron 21:1, Mat 4:8, Luke 4:5, 1Jn 2:18) shine forth over the wickedness of marijuana! Pharmakeia evil-doers (that is to say, marijuana users - sorcerers and witches all; Gal 5:20,Rev 21:8,22:15), shall be arrested (Luke 12:11), scourged (Mark 15:15, John 19:1), imprisoned (Mat 25:36), and enslaved (1Tim 1:10, Rev 18:13), for ever and ever (Rev 19:3). For to punish marijuana users is like unto the Righteousness of the Saints. (Rev 19:8) Amen! (Total Prohibition or Access (propaganda theme 7) )

(19) The study is one of the first to show the prevalence of drug use among fatally injured drivers .

re: "fatally" - Drugs, the prohibitionist explains, are a wicked bane on modern man. If not for the noble drug war (i.e. jailing drug users), exclaims the propagandist, then people will run amok, and violence, death, psychosis, and plague shall cover the land. (Madness Crime Violence Illness (propaganda theme 2) ) re: "drug use" - Prohibitionists try to hammer in the idea that 'all use is abuse.' The rhetoric of prohibition needs to deny that many people can use currently illegal drugs without abusing them. (Use is Abuse (propaganda theme 4) )

(22) A total of 26.9 percent of the drivers tested positive for marijuana.154 27 ....... o The percentage of fatally injured drivers testing positive for drugs increased over the last five years according to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) .

re: "fatally" - Prohibitionists claim use of currently illegal drugs causes crime, death, illness, lunacy, mania, melancholy, and all means of sin and degradation. (Madness Crime Violence Illness (propaganda theme 2) )

(23) In 2009, 33 percent of the 12,055 drivers fatally injured in motor vehicle crashes with known test results tested positive for at least one drug compared to 28 percent in 2005 .

re: "fatally" - It is prohibition, claim prohibitionists, that saves people from drug crazed, whacked out, high flying drug users. (Madness Crime Violence Illness (propaganda theme 2) )

(27) Drugs were present more than 7 times as frequently as alcohol.157 o According to a NIDA funded study, a large number of American adolescents are putting themselves and others at great risk by driving under the influence of illicit drugs or alcohol .

re: "driving under the influence" - drug war rhetoric transforms drugs users into scapegoats -- (Richard L Miller, Drug Warriors and their Prey) (Madness Crime Violence Illness (propaganda theme 2) ) re: "American" - O'Brien: "The heretic, the enemy of society, will always be there, so that he can be defeated and humiliated over again." (Orwell, 1984) (Survival of Society (propaganda theme 3) ) re: "adolescents" - Prohibitionists play on parental fears by exaggerating the dangers to children of drugs. Adults must be jailed (reason prohibitionists), because kids might be corrupted with drugs. (Children Corrupted (propaganda theme 5) ) re: "NIDA" - "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." -- Lord Acton

(28) In 2006, 30 percent of high school seniors reported driving after drinking heavily or using drugs, or riding in a car whose driver had been drinking heavily or using drugs, as least once in the prior two weeks .

re: "using drugs" - Prohibitionist propagandists repeatedly assert that "use is abuse." Details about "using" as opposed to "abusing" drugs are ignored. (Use is Abuse (propaganda theme 4) )

(30) Patrick O'Malley, lead author of the study, observed that "Driving under the influence is not an alcohol-only problem .

re: "problem", "Driving under the influence" - Prohibitionists claim use of currently illegal drugs causes crime, death, illness, lunacy, mania, melancholy, and all means of sin and degradation. (Madness Crime Violence Illness (propaganda theme 2) )

(32) "Vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death among those aged 15 to 20," added Dr .

re: "death", "accidents" - Prohibitionists claim use of currently illegal drugs causes crime, death, illness, lunacy, mania, melancholy, and all means of sin and degradation. (Madness Crime Violence Illness (propaganda theme 2) )

(33) Nora Volkow, Director of NIDA .

re: "NIDA" - Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit. -- Bertrand Russell

(34) "Combining the lack of driving experience among teens with the use of marijuana and/or other substances that impair cognitive and motor abilities can be a deadly combination." 158 o A June 2007 toxicology study conducted at the University of Maryland's Shock-Trauma Unit in Baltimore found that over 26 percent of injured drivers tested positive for marijuana .

re: "deadly", "impair" - It is prohibition, claim prohibitionists, that saves people from drug crazed, whacked out, high flying drug users. (Madness Crime Violence Illness (propaganda theme 2) ) re: "teens" - "Nothing can so excite an adult population as can anything which appears to threaten their own children." [W.White,1979] (Children Corrupted (propaganda theme 5) )

(36) National Survey on Drug Use and Health estimated that 10.6 million Americans had driven a motor vehicle under the influence of drugs during the previous year. 159 o A study of over 3000 fatally-injured drivers in Australia showed that when marijuana was present in the blood of the driver they were much more likely to be at fault for the accident .

re: "fatally-injured", "accident" - It is prohibition, claim prohibitionists, that saves people from drug crazed, whacked out, high flying drug users. (Madness Crime Violence Illness (propaganda theme 2) ) re: "Americans" - The health of the "community" (read: government) is assured, prohibitionists explain, because drug users are punished. Jailing drug users is thus painted as upholding society. (Survival of Society (propaganda theme 3) ) re: "Drug Use" - "This strategy equates the use and abuse of drugs and implies that it is impossible to use the particular drug or drugs in question without physical, mental, and moral deterioration." [W.White,1979] (Use is Abuse (propaganda theme 4) )

(38) According to its report, "[e]pidemiology data from road traffic arrests and fatalities indicate that after alcohol, marijuana is the most frequently detected psychoactive substance among driving populations."

re: "fatalities" - Prohibition propaganda rarely misses an opportunity to link crime, violence, and insanity with "drugs". The propagandist insinuates that prohibited drugs cause evil, and if it weren't for "drugs" bad things would not exist. (Madness Crime Violence Illness (propaganda theme 2) )


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Bot's analysis of: "The Dangers and Consequences of Marijuana Abuse" the U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Demand Reduction Section, May 2014
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