From LifeSite.net:
The Independent on Sunday, a British newspaper notorious for its vigorous efforts to persuade the British government to decriminalize marijuana, has issued an apology for its previous position and announced that, due to new evidence concerning the dangers of cannabis, it will cease advocating decriminalization of the drug.
Citing statistics released from the National Treatment Agency, Owen revealed that the number of young people under the age of 18 who sought drug treatment for an addiction to pot almost doubled in a year’s time - from 5,000 in 2005 to 9,600 in 2006. 13,000 adults also sought similar treatment for addiction to pot.
The article claimed that the cannabis that is smoked in today’s day and age, referred to as ‘skunk’, is many times stronger than the pot of the free-wheeling 1960’s. Skunk seeds are easily accessible to anyone online where the potency of the drug is revealed by its nicknames which include AK-47, White Widow and Armageddon.
This contradicts what many pot legalization advocates have been saying for some time...and what most people knew anyway: marijuana can become an addiction just like anything.
Coincidentally, Judge Jerome Eckrich of the Meade County Circuit Court told me pretty much the same thing this afternoon in a conversation I had with him about drug court in South Dakota.
While we often think of meth as a highly addictive drug--and it is--Judge Eckrich stressed that pot was not to be underestimated for its ability to hook its users.
Eckrich convinced the 2007 South Dakota legislature to pass HB 1271, funding South Dakota's first drug court.
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