Addictive Nature - As an initial note, there is a misconception regarding marijuana that is as pervasive as it is inaccurate– that marijuana is not addictive. While Barak Obama is not a member of the media per se, he is certainly part of the pop culture complex which sought to normalize marijuana. The fight against protecting our nation from the dangers of cannabis was certainly not made easier when the leader of the free world used his bully pulpit to claim marijuana use was simply a “bad habit and vice, not very different from the cigarettes I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life.” Obama absolutely did not make America safer when he said, “I don’t think [marijuana] is more dangerous than alcohol.” For a man who berates anyone who questions global warming models “deniers,” Obama certainly has the ability to ignore science when it fits his narrative.
What say the experts about marijuana and its addictive qualities? The proposition that marijuana is addictive and harmful is endorsed by the World Health Organization, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Institute of Health, the American Society of Addiction Medicine, the American Medical Association, the U.S. Surgeon General, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, to simply name a few. But these educated and professional positions get little, if any, coverage compared to some pundit merely claiming that marijuana is neither addictive and nor harmful. [Brian Surber, Injustice for All: The (Familiar) Fallacies of Criminal Justice Reform, (True Blue Publishing, LLC,) p. 93-94.]
