{"id":2796,"date":"2009-07-19T16:46:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T16:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2016-09-20T20:09:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T20:09:30","slug":"bush-official-says-medical-marijuana-a-trojan-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/07\/bush-official-says-medical-marijuana-a-trojan-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Official Says Medical Marijuana a \u2018Trojan Horse\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><span>Calling medical marijuana the \u201cTrojan horse of the new millennium,\u201d Andrea Grubb Barthwell, deputy director for demand reduction for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, criticized the use of medical pot and said the drug is a public-health threat. Barthwell made her comments in San Francisco, California during a 25-city nationwide tour to discuss drug-fighting efforts with local officials. Barthwell criticized medical-marijuana advocates, saying they are using the drug as a pawn in their agenda to legalize all dangerous drugs.\u00a0 \u201cMarijuana is a wedge issue to create a change in drug policy, with the intent to legalize drugs without limits,\u201d Barthwell said. \u201cToday, marijuana is strong enough to change the trajectory of a kid\u2019s life.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><span>In response, marijuana advocates said the Bush administration is ignoring research showing the positive medical applications for marijuana. Advocates also cited studies that showed that since voters approved Proposition 36 three years ago, 35,000 Californians arrested for possessing marijuana and other drugs have opted for treatment instead of criminal penalties. \u201cThe bottom line is, her administration is still spending 70 percent to 80 percent of its money on interdiction instead of treatment,\u201d said Daniel .Abrahamson, director of legal affairs for the Drug Policy Alliance. \u201cShe can play politics and stand on the bandwagon, but things are passing her by.\u201d Barthwell acknowledged that Proposition 36 is valuable in getting drug users into treatment. But she said the federal government needs to strongly re establish \u201ca culture of disapproval\u201d while increases access to treatment. Barthwell also argued that no significant studies have found marijuana use beneficial.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><span>Source: Reported in Contra Costa Times Oct 15, 2003<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling medical marijuana the \u201cTrojan horse of the new millennium,\u201d Andrea Grubb Barthwell, deputy director for demand reduction for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, criticized the use of medical pot and said the drug is a public-health threat. Barthwell made her comments in San Francisco, California during a 25-city nationwide tour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-specifics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796","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=2796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}