{"id":15920,"date":"2020-03-04T19:15:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T19:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=15920"},"modified":"2020-10-08T11:40:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T11:40:47","slug":"marijuana-has-become-a-media-darlingbut-are-journalists-too-soft-on-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2020\/03\/marijuana-has-become-a-media-darlingbut-are-journalists-too-soft-on-pot\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana Has Become A Media Darling,But Are Journalists Too Soft On Pot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\">Marijuana reporter Joel Warner asks if the media is currently biased in support of marijuana legalization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\"> He cites a recent incident brought to his attention by Kevin Sabet, founder of SAM (Smart Approaches to Marijuana), who had received a tip that the next-day release of the 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health would show that marijuana use in Colorado has reached the highest levels in the nation. Sabet wrote a press release which fell on deaf ears. A Google analysis shows only 17 stories were written about this consequence of legalization in Colorado.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\">In contrast, a few weeks before, the release of the 2015 Monitoring the Future Survey showed a slight downturn in past-month marijuana use among 8<sup>th<\/sup>, 10<sup>th<\/sup>, and 12<sup>th<\/sup> grade students nationwide. It was hyped by some in the press as a signal that legalization is of no consequence. A total of 156 news stories covered the results of this survey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\">Warner notes that there are now \u201cmarijuana-business newspapers and marijuana culture magazines, full-time marijuana-industry reporters (this writer included), and even a marijuana-editorial division at the <em>Denver Post<\/em> called the <em>Cannabist<\/em>, staffed with a marijuana editor and cannabis strain reviewers,\u201d like Jake Browne, pictured above.<\/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\">He asks if the data supports it, could marijuana journalists \u201cbe expected to conclude that legalization has been a failure, if that means they would also be writing the obituaries for their own jobs?\u201d<\/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 Joel Warner\u2019s thoughtful <em>International Business Times<\/em> article <a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/themarijuanareport.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=2138d91b74dd79cbf58e302bf&amp;id=e267b270af&amp;e=5d18932b33\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\">Source: Email from Monte Stiles, National Families in Action January 2016<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marijuana reporter Joel Warner asks if the media is currently biased in support of marijuana legalization. He cites a recent incident brought to his attention by Kevin Sabet, founder of SAM (Smart Approaches to Marijuana), who had received a tip that the next-day release of the 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,90,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-marijuana","category-global-drug-legalisation-efforts","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15920","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=15920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}