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Working to promote evidence-based solutions to reducing the harmful influence of the unregulated marijuana market, the root to many of the drug problems afflicting our youth and communities.
Website: http://www.ProtectYouth.org
Location: Dallas, Texas
Members: 2
Latest Activity: Nov 19
Sites of Interest
A resolution reaffirming support for state regulation and taxation of the tobacco market to reduce its influence on our youth and communities and a call to apply similar governance to the unregulated marijuana market.
2009 Tobacco and Marijuana Market Impact Index
- Texas Trends
- National Trends
This is the nation’s most comprehensive study showing that our broader regulation efforts over the tobacco market during the past 10 years have surpassed enforcement of the marijuana market ban in protecting the health of young teens in Texas and across the country. Furthermore, despite the enforcement of the marijuana market ban costing ten times more than our tobacco prevention efforts, school districts in every surveyed major city across the country (including those in Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Waco and Lubbock) are now reporting that use of marijuana is more widespread among young teens than that of tobacco cigarettes.
Texas Marijuana Arrest Maps
To emphasize the massive police resources absorbed by the marijuana market ban and their impact on various communities, we have also published the largest online collection of aerial maps showing arrest trends for marijuana possession and sales in 30 cities spanning 14 counties throughout Texas.
Texas School Survey of Drug and Alcohol Use Archives
The largest online collection of previously unpublished school district survey data on student drug use, covering years 1989 to 2009. This information was produced by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) and Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse in conjunction with the Public Policy Research Institute (PPRI) at Texas A&M University.
Youth Risk Behavior Survey Archives
This nationwide survey conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides trend data at national, state, and school district level concerning student drug use, in addition to other health risk behavior issues.
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San Antonio Express News ignores the role of permissive marijuana laws in worsening drug cartel violence
Here is an excerpt from yesterday’s San Antonio Express editorial, highlighting the dire situation in Ciudad Juarez: Business groups in Ciudad Juárez, across the border from El Paso, are submittin...
Started by Christy Weaver Nov 19.
Texas state agency refuses to make community drug use data available online
Craig Johnson, executive director of the drug prevention nonprofit ProtectYouth.org, called on Commissioner David Lakey of the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) to authorize the publ...
Started by Christy Weaver Nov 10.
Trafficking of less than 500 pounds of marijuana essentially decriminalized along our southern border
According to an October 30th article in the New York Times titled “U.S. and Mexico Agree on Shift in Drug Trials”, for quite awhile we have essentially decriminalized the trafficking of marijuana a...
Started by Christy Weaver Nov 10.
Conservative columnist George Will praises tobacco prevention efforts, proposes regulation and taxation of the marijuana market
In an October 25th broadcast of ABC's This Week With George Stephanopoulos, well-respected conservative columnist George Will noted that "80 percent of the Mexican cartels' revenue is from marijuan...
Started by Christy Weaver Nov 10.
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