{"id":254,"date":"2015-07-15T17:11:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T22:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/?p=254"},"modified":"2015-07-18T11:17:55","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T16:17:55","slug":"prevent-and-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/2015\/07\/15\/prevent-and-treat\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevent and treat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roffman, Roger. \u201cMarijuana\u2019s addictive risk shouldn\u2019t be ignored.\u201d washingtonpost.com. The Washington Post, <\/em>24. Oct. 2014. Web. 15 July 2015.<\/p>\n

Roger Roffman, the author of \u201cMarijuana Nation: One Man\u2019s Chronicle of America Getting High -From Vietnam to Legislation\u201d and a professor emeritus of social work at the University of Washington.\u00a0 In the mid-1980\u2019s he was the founding director of the Innovative Programs Research Group, retiring in 2009 from the faculty he continues working with the school part-time as a co-investigator at the IPRG.\u00a0 Roffman agreeing with the world-wide debate on legalizing marijuana, however makes clear, along with the legalizing he also believes there should be an investment in educating the public and preventing and treating those who are addicted.<\/p>\n

On October 24, 2014, Roffman shares his thoughts on the legalization while incorporating a personal experience with the substance.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s not as if I\u2019m stoned every day,\u201d he would say, \u201cis it different from having a drink or two?\u201d\u00a0 Roffman points out how he slowly began losing himself and distancing himself from his wife.\u00a0 That was when he realized that he was one of the many Americans today that become addicted to marijuana.<\/p>\n

After years of successfully quitting, he along with some colleagues, who had also struggled with addiction to marijuana, began a research.\u00a0 \u201cToday, about 2.7 million Americans over age 12 are dependent on marijuana\u2026the risk of becoming addicted is roughly 9 percent\u2026 17 percent for those who begin in adolescence, and for those who get high daily, the addiction risk is 25 percent to 50 percent.\u201d\u00a0 Despite the statistics Roffman believes that legalizing marijuana still makes more sense than prohibition.\u00a0 Prohibiting marijuana would only result in violence and more competition between drug cartels nationally.\u00a0 While legalizing and taking actions in providing aid to those who are addicted or those who just need to be more educated on the substance would result in a better outcome.<\/p>\n

He points out how many people have tended to exaggerate the truth about marijuana and its risks, explaining how others on the flip side of the issue over analyze the situation. \u00a0\u201cThose arguing against legalization often exaggerate marijuana\u2019s risks, rarely acknowledging most occasional users are not harmed,\u201d he states, followed by mentioning how legalizing marijuana is the result to a healthier and safer nation.\u00a0 Taking the right actions in providing for marijuana users will ultimately be much better than completely denying the use of it.<\/p>\n

This article helped me in realizing that there is not just one side to this debate.\u00a0 Some may see it as either \u201cyes legalize it, and everybody can get high\u201d and others might see it as \u201cno, prohibit the use of marijuana, it\u2019s a drug, and it\u2019s dangerous\u201d but what I haven\u2019t seen a lot of is how Roffman sees it.\u00a0 He sees it in a way that compromises both aspects.\u00a0 He\u2019s demonstrating how someone could use marijuana however there will be an aid available if it were to get out of hand.\u00a0 I believe that this article could be useful for those who are in the middle of this debate as I am. \u00a0It will allow a slightly different point of view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roffman, Roger. \u201cMarijuana\u2019s addictive risk shouldn\u2019t be ignored.\u201d washingtonpost.com. The Washington Post, 24. Oct. 2014. Web. 15 July 2015. Roger Roffman, the author of \u201cMarijuana Nation: One Man\u2019s Chronicle of America Getting High -From Vietnam to Legislation\u201d and a professor … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rs-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}