(Yesterday when I
commented on the New York Times story cited here I said that this would quickly become a
part of prohibitionist propaganda. While the original article had many points not
congenial to prohibitionism, they are not related here. Of course, Hassela has not
reported on the new Dutch cannabis figures, although they regularly report anything
about Holland that might sound bad.)Press release
April 22, 1998
See
"Youths Tie
Tobacco Use to Marijuana" -- Reverse Gateway, Reports The New York Times Important Article
and
Publisher of Marijuana
Myths; Marijuana Facts Pays for Press Release For Coverage of New Dutch Marijuana
Stats
TEEN-AGERS TIE TOBACCO USE TO MARIJUANA
According to an article in the New York Times today, teen-agers themselves say they
take up smoking because of a belief that cigarettes prolong the
heady rush of marijuana. According to the paper, several surveys show that blacks
begin smoking cigarettes later than white teen-agers, but start using marijuana earlier.
New York Times reports that many black teen-agers said in interviews that they were lured to cigarettes by friends who told them that nicotine would
enhance their high from marijuana.
Professor Robin Mermelstein at the university of Illinois at Chicago was quoted as
saying by the paper, that, "African-American youth talk very explicitly about using
smoking to maintain a high" and he said that in focus groups with 1,200 teen-agers
around the country, about half the blacks mentioned taking up cigarettes to enhance a
marijuana high, but no white teen-agers volunteered that as an explanation for smoking.
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