From: [f--oo--y] at [io.org] (Dave Haans)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.drugs
Subject: Pro-Drug Advice Can Reduce Risks: Journal of Drug Issues
Date: 2 Dec 1995 16:38:53 GMT

This is reprinted from the Addiction Research Foundation's 
(http://www.arf.org/) newsletter, "The Journal", Novemeber/December 1995.  All 
typos are mine, and mine alone.  You can't have 'em.  I don't know if this is 
on the web yet -- I took it from the paper version of the Journal.

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Pro-drug advice can reduce risks

Groups such as NORML and the Peyote Way Church of God are criticized for 
promoting the use of cannabis and psychedelic drugs.  But the advice of 
pro-drug groups "can be seen to reduce a broad range of risks," according to a 
New Mexico researcher who interviewed members of pro-drug groups and reviewed 
their publications.  Such groups promote informed, rather than indiscrimiate, 
use of drugs, he found.  For example, in its list of "ethical 
responsibilities," NORML advises users to "Know what you are doing" -- to 
understand the physical and psychological effects of marijuana and the 
differences between use and abuse.  The reseacher contrasts such advice with 
one-dimensional government campaigns such as the ad that equated a drug user's 
brain with a fried egg.

"An analysis of risk reduction among organized groups that promote marijuana 
and psychedelic drugs." The Journal of Drug Issues, 1995, v.25(3):629-647.
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Enjoy!

Dave.

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Dave Haans
Canadian Drug Information Page:	http://www.io.org/~froofy