{"id":15420,"date":"2019-05-08T18:18:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T18:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=15420"},"modified":"2019-09-25T18:54:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T18:54:18","slug":"careful-reasoned-debate-about-legalizing-marijuana-still-hasnt-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2019\/05\/careful-reasoned-debate-about-legalizing-marijuana-still-hasnt-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Careful, Reasoned Debate About Legalizing Marijuana Still Hasn\u2019t Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\">Psychologist Robert Margolis, PhD, has spent the past 40 years treating substance abuse disorders in adolescents. He founded and ran Solutions, an after-school alcohol and drug treatment program for young people in Atlanta, Georgia. When he retired recently, he merged Solutions with Caron Treatment Center, a nonprofit organization with treatment facilities in several states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\"> Dr. Margolis wrote an op-ed for the <em>Atlanta Journal Constitution<\/em> in 2002 calling for careful, reasoned debate about the legalization of marijuana. Today, he writes that that debate still hasn\u2019t happened. He lays out what science says about the impact of marijuana use on young people and asks if we are prepared to allow next generations to be so drug damaged.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\">Read his essay <a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalfamilies.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=2138d91b74dd79cbf58e302bf&amp;id=0154655598&amp;e=cf79f39d5d\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color: #0000ff;font-size: 10pt\">Source: Email from National Families In Action http:\/\/www.nationalfamilies.org November 2017<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychologist Robert Margolis, PhD, has spent the past 40 years treating substance abuse disorders in adolescents. He founded and ran Solutions, an after-school alcohol and drug treatment program for young people in Atlanta, Georgia. When he retired recently, he merged Solutions with Caron Treatment Center, a nonprofit organization with treatment facilities in several states. Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-marijuana","category-global-drug-legalisation-efforts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15420","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}