{"id":11289,"date":"2016-06-16T18:41:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T18:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=11289"},"modified":"2016-09-20T17:37:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T17:37:10","slug":"response-to-latest-claims-by-the-international-centre-for-science-in-drug-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2016\/06\/response-to-latest-claims-by-the-international-centre-for-science-in-drug-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to Latest Claims by the International Centre for Science in Drug Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an excellent report. \u00a0It shows how seemingly accurate information is being disseminated by pro-marijuana groups heavily funded by George Soros. \u00a0Every claim is disputed by scientific evidence from responsible contributors.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Florida Drug Policy Institute Join<\/strong>s <\/strong>Senior Researchers at Harvard, Boston Children’s Hospital, University of Texas, and Others in Responding to Latest Claims by the International Centre for Science in Drug Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n

A\u00a0team of researchers from the UF Drug Policy Institute, Harvard University, and\u00a0other institutions authored a lengthy response<\/a>\u00a0to a recent monograph written by the George Soros-funded ICSDP claiming that cannabis health claims have been overblown.<\/p>\n

The team, led by former American Society of Addiction Medicine President Stu Gitlow, and other researchers with leadership ties to groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, the University of Texas, the University of Pennsylvania, and other institutions found\u00a0that the ICSDP report is an example of deceptive and biased research and that it contains abundant factual errors and logical flaws.<\/a><\/p>\n

The report’s introduction <\/a>reads: “The ICSDP conveniently cites evidence that supports its own predetermined narrative, concluding that only the pro-marijuana lobby has any substantive evidence in its favor-and ignores evidence to the contrary. Its main strategy is to attribute overblown “straw man” arguments to established marijuana researchers, misstating their positions and then claiming to “rebut” these positions with research.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“This response\/critique reveals the lack of objectivity present in the report and, point-by-point, shows how the interests of the nascent Big Marijuana industry, private equity firms, and lobbyists lining up to capitalize on a new marijuana industry, are served<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

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About the UF Drug Policy Institute<\/strong><\/p>\n

The UF Drug Policy Institute (DPI) serves the state of Florida, the Nation, and the global community in delivering evidence-based, policy-relevant, information to policymakers, practitioners, scholars, and the community to make educated decisions about issues of policy significance in the field of substance use, abuse, and addiction.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read about our Distinguished Fellows Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is an excellent report. \u00a0It shows how seemingly accurate information is being disseminated by pro-marijuana groups heavily funded by George Soros. \u00a0Every claim is disputed by scientific evidence from responsible contributors. University of Florida Drug Policy Institute Joins Senior Researchers at Harvard, Boston Children’s Hospital, University of Texas, and Others in Responding to Latest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,90,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-effects-of-drugs","category-global-drug-legalisation-efforts","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}