{"id":1520,"date":"2013-04-02T07:55:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T07:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/?p=20801"},"modified":"2013-04-02T07:55:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T07:55:20","slug":"marijuana-may-be-used-to-treat-addiction-in-columbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/marijuana-may-be-used-to-treat-addiction-in-columbia\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana may be used to treat addiction in Columbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/marijuana-may-be-used-to-treat-addiction-in-columbia\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"236\" height=\"214\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/marijuana-bud.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"marijuana bud\" title=\"marijuana bud\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-20803\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/marijuana-being-used-to-treat-addiction-in-columbia\/attachment\/marijuana-bud\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20803\" title=\"marijuana bud\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/marijuana-bud-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Marijuana&#8217;s reputation was relentlessly attacked for decades. \u00a0We at <a href=\"www.marijuana.net\" target=\"_blank\">marijuana.net<\/a> have spoken in great length about the propaganda our government has utilized to attack a plant.\u00a0 Movies such as &#8220;Reefer Madness&#8221; were used to scare much of the general population, while the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drugsense.org\/cms\/wodclock\" target=\"_blank\">War on Drugs <\/a>has worn out everything from morale to finances.\u00a0 Propaganda movies and failed politics appear to be on the way out.<\/p>\n<p>While the new marijuana reform movement and medical research has helped to change the perception of cannabis considerably, \u00a0we have just learned of a new development that is groundbreaking. \u00a0It appears that Columbia&#8217;s capital city,\u00a0 Bogota, \u00a0is considering a new approach to combating the issue of serious drug use. \u00a0In this case marijuana is not the villain, but may in fact be the savior.\u00a0 The mayor of Bogota in the city may administer a program that would have <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cocaine_paste\" target=\"_blank\">basuco<\/a> users (a cocaine derivative often compared to crack) use marijuana to help combat their physical addiction.<\/p>\n<p>Basuco is considered to be one of the least pure forms of cocaine and there is widespread concern over its health implications. \u00a0Experts estimate that there are over7000 problem users (those who take 15-20 hits per day).\u00a0 There are likely many other users in need of help who use slightly less.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see if such a program ever makes its way to the united states. \u00a0Amanda Reiman of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drugpolicy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Drug Policy Alliance<\/a> does not think it will be anytime soon as she recently told ABC news &#8220;Unfortunately, universities rely on grants from the federal government for research, so most of what they do is what the feds want done.\u00a0 As you can probably guess, the feds are not too interested in beneficial uses for marijuana, and even less interested in how to help people who are addicted to substances, so most of the research in this area occurs outside the U.S. or through private funding.&#8221;\u00a0 If the program is successful in Colombia us authorities may have no choice.\u00a0 Support for medical marijuana is growing rapidly, and research is regularly revealing new ways in which cannabis can aid patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"236\" height=\"214\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/marijuana-bud.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"marijuana bud\" title=\"marijuana bud\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-20803\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/marijuana-being-used-to-treat-addiction-in-columbia\/attachment\/marijuana-bud\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20803\" title=\"marijuana bud\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/marijuana-bud-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Marijuana&#8217;s reputation was relentlessly attacked for decades. \u00a0We at <a href=\"www.marijuana.net\" target=\"_blank\">marijuana.net<\/a> have spoken in great length about the propaganda our government has utilized to attack a plant.\u00a0 Movies such as &#8220;Reefer Madness&#8221; were used to scare much of the general population, while the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drugsense.org\/cms\/wodclock\" target=\"_blank\">War on Drugs <\/a>has worn out everything from morale to finances.\u00a0 Propaganda movies and failed politics appear to be on the way out.<\/p>\n<p>While the new marijuana reform movement and medical research has helped to change the perception of cannabis considerably, \u00a0we have just learned of a new development that is groundbreaking. \u00a0It appears that Columbia&#8217;s capital city,\u00a0 Bogota, \u00a0is considering a new approach to combating the issue of serious drug use. \u00a0In this case marijuana is not the villain, but may in fact be the savior.\u00a0 The mayor of Bogota in the city may administer a program that would have <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cocaine_paste\" target=\"_blank\">basuco<\/a> users (a cocaine derivative often compared to crack) use marijuana to help combat their physical addiction.<\/p>\n<p>Basuco is considered to be one of the least pure forms of cocaine and there is widespread concern over its health implications. \u00a0Experts estimate that there are over7000 problem users (those who take 15-20 hits per day).\u00a0 There are likely many other users in need of help who use slightly less.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see if such a program ever makes its way to the united states. \u00a0Amanda Reiman of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drugpolicy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Drug Policy Alliance<\/a> does not think it will be anytime soon as she recently told ABC news &#8220;Unfortunately, universities rely on grants from the federal government for research, so most of what they do is what the feds want done.\u00a0 As you can probably guess, the feds are not too interested in beneficial uses for marijuana, and even less interested in how to help people who are addicted to substances, so most of the research in this area occurs outside the U.S. or through private funding.&#8221;\u00a0 If the program is successful in Colombia us authorities may have no choice.\u00a0 Support for medical marijuana is growing rapidly, and research is regularly revealing new ways in which cannabis can aid patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[980,1533,1534,52,356,1175,56,9,51,70,1,3,74,61],"tags":[3551,4101,4102,2632,2934,3745,2636,2631,5,2652,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}