DEA Position Paper on Marijuana

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Monday, April 1, 2013

The earlier an individual begins to use marijuana, the likelier he or she is to be arrested.
What greatly concerned the researchers is that many teens don’t even consider marijuana use a distraction to their driving.
According to National Families in Action, four individuals—George Soros, Peter Lewis, George Zimmer, and John Sperling— contributed $1,510,000 to the effort to pass a “medical” marijuana law in California in 1996, a sum representing nearly 60 percent of the total contributions.
“THC, a key ingredient in marijuana, alters the ability of the hippocampus, a brain area related to learning and memory, to communicate effectively with other brain regions. In addition, we know from recent research that marijuana use that begins during adolescence can lower IQ and impair other measures of mental function in adulthood
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