DEA Tweet Unintentionally Reveals Cannabis Legalization Argument
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The DEA has caused a roller coaster of news in the cannabis industry over the past year. The agency always seems to be butting heads with cannabis in some way or another and the truth behind the DEA’s intentions isn’t always widely publicized. Now, newest information on the DEA front is in the form of a tweet from DEA HQ, where it describes a connection between the perception of risk and actual substance use.
On January 9, @DEAHQ posted the following:
The tweet was also accompanied by two charts, both utilizing research conducted between 1975
and 2013 through the eyes of 12th grade students. The first shows “cigarette use and perception of harm,” with a clear increase in risk of harm and decrease in a 1/2 pack of cigarettes or more per day. The second exhibits “marijuana use and perception of harm” and shows the gradual decrease of risk and increase of cannabis use almost meeting in the middle.
According to an article on VOX, there is a much different reading of this post that argues directly against what the post meant to prove. The tobacco industry has been legal since before the chart begins, and its risk is well advertised in our world today.
This is thanks to everything from education campaigns, bans on smoking and increased tobacco taxes. Yet cannabis is still federally illegal, but the overall acceptance of cannabis use has increased tenfold, along with the knowledge that the plant is natural, and there is little to no risk involved in consuming it. VOX notes that ultimately the charts clearly show that the “legal model” works and the legal substance experienced reduced use whereas the illegal substance has not. If you wish to learn more about cannabis or CBD, you can check out sites like cbdluxe.com and others to gain sufficient knowledge.
If cannabis were to be regulated as tobacco, things might drastically change. Even President Barack Obama agreed in a recent interview with Rolling Stone that it could be a beneficial change, “I do believe that treating [substance abuse] as a public-health issue, the same way we do with cigarettes or alcohol, is the much smarter way to deal with it.”
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