{"id":2561,"date":"2006-09-07T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2561"},"modified":"2006-09-07T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-07T15:17:00","slug":"pro-drug-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2006\/09\/07\/11\/17\/pro-drug-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Drug Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2148999\/fr\/rss\/\">Since 1998, the [US] federal government has spent more than $1.4 billion on an ad campaign aimed primarily at dissuading teens from using marijuana &#8230; The White House provided the funding and NIDA contracted with a research firm, Westat, which [reported that] instead of reducing the likelihood that kids would smoke marijuana, the ads increased it &#8230; The White House drug office sat on the Westat report for a year and a half beginning in early 2005\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhile spending $220 million on the anti-marijuana ads in fiscal years 2005 and 2006.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/08\/25\/AR2006082501016.html\">Westat found the ads had no &#8220;significant favorable effects&#8221; in deterring children from trying marijuana or in getting them to stop. Rather, it found that more 12 1\/2- to 13-year-olds and girls were trying the drug after seeing the ads<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missoulanews.com\/News\/News.asp?no=5881\">Meth use by Montana teens, the specific target of the Montana Meth Project, has been on the decline for seven steady years &#8230; The project\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own survey, conducted once before the ads ran and again six months into their run, found a statistically significant increase in the number of teens who said they saw no risk in trying meth once or twice.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1998, the [US] federal government has spent more than $1.4 billion on an ad campaign aimed primarily at dissuading teens from using marijuana &#8230; The White House provided the funding and NIDA contracted&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}