Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Government Anti-Marijuana Ads Backfire, Report Buried

On the heels of a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) assessment questioning the effectiveness of the White House-sponsored anti-marijuana advertising campaign, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) this week finally released an evaluation of the ad campaign that was kept under wraps for a year and a half. The report finds that the anti-marijuana campaign has not only failed to reduce teen marijuana use, but it actually increased marijuana use among certain adolescents.

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