Five
Colorado college students died during the Fall 2004 semester
as the unintentional result of alcohol consumption.
- Drinking
by college students, ages 18 to 24, contributes to an estimated
1,400 student deaths, 500,000 injuries and 70,000 cases
of sexual assaults or date rapes each year.
- Nearly
half of all college students who abuse alcohol experience
five or more serious problems, including missing class,
physical injury, arguing with friends and engaging in unprotected
sex.1
- Approximately
three million violent crimes occur each year in which victims
report the offender was under the influence of alcohol.2
Extensive scientific research has proven that the use of
marijuana itself is not linked to violent or destructive
behavoir. |
Alcohol
poisoning is the primary cause of more than 300 deaths
each year.3 There has never
been a single recorded case of lethal marijuana overdose
in history.
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Two leading pharmacologists were independently asked to
rank the dependence potential of six psychoactive drugs:
caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, heroin, cocaine, and marijuana.
Both ranked marijuana and caffeine as the two least addictive.
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Research shows that marijuana does not produce sexually
aggressive or vulnerable behavior. Two-thirds of women
who are sexually assaulted by their boyfriend or spouse
report that alcohol was a factor,2
and about seventy-five percent of sexual assaults that
take place on campus involve alcohol.
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The greatest harms associated with the use of marijuana
involve the penalties for its use and not the use of marijuana
itself.
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