{"id":1847,"date":"2012-01-07T20:34:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T20:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/?p=10412"},"modified":"2012-01-07T20:34:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T20:34:49","slug":"the-shafer-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/the-shafer-report\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shafer Report"},"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\/the-shafer-report\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"210\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/shafer.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"shafer\" title=\"shafer\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-11219\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/the-shafer-report-2\/attachment\/shafer-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11219\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/shafer.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>In 1970, the <a title=\"Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act\" href=\"http:\/\/iowamedicalmarijuana.org\/documents\/csa.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Comprehensive Substance Abuse Prevention and Control Act<\/a> rewrote the guidelines on drugs, sorting them into five groups, Schedule 1-5.\u00a0 Additionally, it engendered the <a title=\"Establishing the Commission\" href=\"http:\/\/iowamedicalmarijuana.org\/documents\/csa601.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Commission on Marijuana and Substance Abuse<\/a> which targeted to review the results of Marijuana on People in america.\u00a0 The outcomes of the study were launched in 1972 and therefore are better termed as &#8220;The <a title=\"Raymond P Shafer\" href=\"http:\/\/pa.gov\/portal\/server.pt\/community\/1951-present\/4285\/raymond_p__shafer\/471839\" target=\"_blank\">Shafer<\/a> Report.&#8221;\u00a0 This research was presented before Congress on March 22 1972, titled &#8220;<a title=\"The Shafer Report\" href=\"http:\/\/iowamedicalmarijuana.org\/documents\/nc1contents.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Marijuana, An Indication of Misunderstanding<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 It was a landmark presentation because its goal ended up being to locate an honest knowledge of the results of Cannabis on people, without depending around the testimonies from the previous half a century of <a title=\"Reefer Madness - Propaganda\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0028346\/\" target=\"_blank\">propaganda<\/a> that were recognized as truth.\u00a0 The report is divided into five parts: The Issue of Marijuana, It&#8217;s Use and Effects, Its Social Impact, The Social Response, and Social Policy.<\/p>\n<p>During the period of the 2 years the Commission had carried out clinical studies across the nation, in metropolitan areas for example Boston, Philadelphia, Bay Area and much more in it&#8217;s efforts to obtain the truth behind Marijuana.\u00a0 They carried out numerous interviews, had 1000&#8217;s of surveys as well as examined many different types of Marijuana to attain their goal.\u00a0 One conclusion attracted, &#8220;The emotions and condition of awareness referred to through the intoxicated appear to become much more interesting compared to objective condition noted by an observer.&#8221;\u00a0 In plain words, the researchers carrying out the experiments had much less fun performing them compared to people taking part in stated experiments.\u00a0 I believe we are able to all agree with that time.<\/p>\n<p>Much more entered the research than asking people about use and watching intoxication.\u00a0 They have to know why people switched to Marijuana to begin with.\u00a0 What social factors brought people into Mary Jane&#8217;s hands?\u00a0 For individuals individuals who did not know, after Cannabis was criminalized and banned in <a title=\"Marihuana Tax Act of 1937\" href=\"http:\/\/www.druglibrary.org\/schaffer\/hemp\/history\/mustomj1.html\" target=\"_blank\">1937<\/a> its use dropped considerably.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t before the 1960&#8217;s it all of a sudden reemerged like a cultural pressure and it is use was common.\u00a0 It had been then broadly adopted by America&#8217;s youth included in the counterculture.\u00a0 As the Baby Seniors were busy protesting and becoming high, the relaxation of the nation was very scared of pot&#8217;s rebirth and just what it intended for society.\u00a0 The thing is, &#8220;the drug was assumed to become a &#8220;narcotic,&#8221; to render the consumer psychologically dependent, to impress violent crime, and also to cause madness.&#8221;\u00a0 You will find lots who still believe that it is a gateway drug which permitting its ongoing use would undermine the nation.\u00a0 Therefore the males behind the report requested important questions like, &#8220;Who uses marijuana?&#8221; and &#8220;When does use start?&#8221; &#8220;How lengthy do people still smoke marijuana?&#8221; &#8220;So why do they begin,Inch and &#8220;So why do they stop?&#8221;\u00a0 They recognized it needed to be divided for an individual level.\u00a0 For too lengthy Marijuana had only been talked about in simplification. Which kind of discussion goes nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>Certain conclusions were arrived at, one being that almost all cannabis customers are functional, upstanding people of society.\u00a0 Many customers can start smoking in an effort to defy authority (ex: teens rebelling against their parents, university students protesting against illegal laws and regulations).\u00a0 But, they aren&#8217;t anarchic delinquents trying to bring lower things as they are.\u00a0 They&#8217;re only crooks since the laws and regulations in position make sure they are so.\u00a0 To be able to rank the possibility of marijuana, they needed to compare it with other legal and illegal drugs. Apart from not leading to physical dependency, they observed, &#8220;A careful search from the literature and testimony from the nation&#8217;s health authorities hasn&#8217;t revealed just one human fatality within the u . s . states shown to have resulted exclusively in the ingestion of marijuana. Experiments using the drug in apes shown the dose needed for overdose dying was enormous as well as for all logical reasons impossible by humans smoking marijuana. This really is in marked contrast with other substances in keeping use, most particularly alcohol and barbiturate sleep aids.Inch\u00a0 So, it will not kill you, it will not cause you to kill others.\u00a0 It does not produce the physical dependency that&#8217;s observed in cocaine and alcohol which in turn causes individuals to commit crimes to ensure that they might obtain more drugs.<\/p>\n<p>After causeing this to be report, the Nixon administration quickly overlooked it.\u00a0 <a title=\"Nixon to Shafer\" href=\"http:\/\/norml.org\/news\/2002\/03\/21\/nixon-commission-report-advising-decriminalization-of-marijuana-celebrates-30th-anniversary\" target=\"_blank\">Nixon told Shafer<\/a>, &#8220;What we are likely to do will make your commission just look bad as hell.&#8221; And consequently, today we&#8217;re still facing exactly the same problems that impeded progress within the Seventies.\u00a0 Today we&#8217;ve a lot more studies to attract upon that demonstrate the numerous benefits of legalizing medicinal marijuana but we&#8217;re in an impasse.\u00a0 This report is going to be 40 years old in a couple of several weeks.\u00a0 The <a title=\"War on Drugs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/war-on-drugs-even-more-expensive-than-we-think\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fight against Drugs<\/a> turns forty this season.\u00a0 Yet a vocal most of people still think that Cannabis is much more destructive than alcohol and tobacco, which it warrants to stay illegal.\u00a0 Take the time to check out the data for <a title=\"CDC alcohol statistics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/Alcohol\/\" target=\"_blank\">alcohol<\/a>-related and <a title=\"CDC tobacco death data\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/tobacco\/data_statistics\/fact_sheets\/health_effects\/tobacco_related_mortality\/\" target=\"_blank\">tobacco<\/a>-related deaths and you choose which is much more harmful to society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"210\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/shafer.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"shafer\" title=\"shafer\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-11219\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/the-shafer-report-2\/attachment\/shafer-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11219\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/shafer.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>In 1970, the <a title=\"Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act\" href=\"http:\/\/iowamedicalmarijuana.org\/documents\/csa.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Comprehensive Substance Abuse Prevention and Control Act<\/a> rewrote the guidelines on drugs, sorting them into five groups, Schedule 1-5.\u00a0 Additionally, it engendered the <a title=\"Establishing the Commission\" href=\"http:\/\/iowamedicalmarijuana.org\/documents\/csa601.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Commission on Marijuana and Substance Abuse<\/a> which targeted to review the results of Marijuana on People in america.\u00a0 The outcomes of the study were launched in 1972 and therefore are better termed as &#8220;The <a title=\"Raymond P Shafer\" href=\"http:\/\/pa.gov\/portal\/server.pt\/community\/1951-present\/4285\/raymond_p__shafer\/471839\" target=\"_blank\">Shafer<\/a> Report.&#8221;\u00a0 This research was presented before Congress on March 22 1972, titled &#8220;<a title=\"The Shafer Report\" href=\"http:\/\/iowamedicalmarijuana.org\/documents\/nc1contents.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Marijuana, An Indication of Misunderstanding<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 It was a landmark presentation because its goal ended up being to locate an honest knowledge of the results of Cannabis on people, without depending around the testimonies from the previous half a century of <a title=\"Reefer Madness - Propaganda\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0028346\/\" target=\"_blank\">propaganda<\/a> that were recognized as truth.\u00a0 The report is divided into five parts: The Issue of Marijuana, It&#8217;s Use and Effects, Its Social Impact, The Social Response, and Social Policy.<\/p>\n<p>During the period of the 2 years the Commission had carried out clinical studies across the nation, in metropolitan areas for example Boston, Philadelphia, Bay Area and much more in it&#8217;s efforts to obtain the truth behind Marijuana.\u00a0 They carried out numerous interviews, had 1000&#8217;s of surveys as well as examined many different types of Marijuana to attain their goal.\u00a0 One conclusion attracted, &#8220;The emotions and condition of awareness referred to through the intoxicated appear to become much more interesting compared to objective condition noted by an observer.&#8221;\u00a0 In plain words, the researchers carrying out the experiments had much less fun performing them compared to people taking part in stated experiments.\u00a0 I believe we are able to all agree with that time.<\/p>\n<p>Much more entered the research than asking people about use and watching intoxication.\u00a0 They have to know why people switched to Marijuana to begin with.\u00a0 What social factors brought people into Mary Jane&#8217;s hands?\u00a0 For individuals individuals who did not know, after Cannabis was criminalized and banned in <a title=\"Marihuana Tax Act of 1937\" href=\"http:\/\/www.druglibrary.org\/schaffer\/hemp\/history\/mustomj1.html\" target=\"_blank\">1937<\/a> its use dropped considerably.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t before the 1960&#8217;s it all of a sudden reemerged like a cultural pressure and it is use was common.\u00a0 It had been then broadly adopted by America&#8217;s youth included in the counterculture.\u00a0 As the Baby Seniors were busy protesting and becoming high, the relaxation of the nation was very scared of pot&#8217;s rebirth and just what it intended for society.\u00a0 The thing is, &#8220;the drug was assumed to become a &#8220;narcotic,&#8221; to render the consumer psychologically dependent, to impress violent crime, and also to cause madness.&#8221;\u00a0 You will find lots who still believe that it is a gateway drug which permitting its ongoing use would undermine the nation.\u00a0 Therefore the males behind the report requested important questions like, &#8220;Who uses marijuana?&#8221; and &#8220;When does use start?&#8221; &#8220;How lengthy do people still smoke marijuana?&#8221; &#8220;So why do they begin,Inch and &#8220;So why do they stop?&#8221;\u00a0 They recognized it needed to be divided for an individual level.\u00a0 For too lengthy Marijuana had only been talked about in simplification. Which kind of discussion goes nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>Certain conclusions were arrived at, one being that almost all cannabis customers are functional, upstanding people of society.\u00a0 Many customers can start smoking in an effort to defy authority (ex: teens rebelling against their parents, university students protesting against illegal laws and regulations).\u00a0 But, they aren&#8217;t anarchic delinquents trying to bring lower things as they are.\u00a0 They&#8217;re only crooks since the laws and regulations in position make sure they are so.\u00a0 To be able to rank the possibility of marijuana, they needed to compare it with other legal and illegal drugs. Apart from not leading to physical dependency, they observed, &#8220;A careful search from the literature and testimony from the nation&#8217;s health authorities hasn&#8217;t revealed just one human fatality within the u . s . states shown to have resulted exclusively in the ingestion of marijuana. Experiments using the drug in apes shown the dose needed for overdose dying was enormous as well as for all logical reasons impossible by humans smoking marijuana. This really is in marked contrast with other substances in keeping use, most particularly alcohol and barbiturate sleep aids.Inch\u00a0 So, it will not kill you, it will not cause you to kill others.\u00a0 It does not produce the physical dependency that&#8217;s observed in cocaine and alcohol which in turn causes individuals to commit crimes to ensure that they might obtain more drugs.<\/p>\n<p>After causeing this to be report, the Nixon administration quickly overlooked it.\u00a0 <a title=\"Nixon to Shafer\" href=\"http:\/\/norml.org\/news\/2002\/03\/21\/nixon-commission-report-advising-decriminalization-of-marijuana-celebrates-30th-anniversary\" target=\"_blank\">Nixon told Shafer<\/a>, &#8220;What we are likely to do will make your commission just look bad as hell.&#8221; And consequently, today we&#8217;re still facing exactly the same problems that impeded progress within the Seventies.\u00a0 Today we&#8217;ve a lot more studies to attract upon that demonstrate the numerous benefits of legalizing medicinal marijuana but we&#8217;re in an impasse.\u00a0 This report is going to be 40 years old in a couple of several weeks.\u00a0 The <a title=\"War on Drugs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/war-on-drugs-even-more-expensive-than-we-think\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fight against Drugs<\/a> turns forty this season.\u00a0 Yet a vocal most of people still think that Cannabis is much more destructive than alcohol and tobacco, which it warrants to stay illegal.\u00a0 Take the time to check out the data for <a title=\"CDC alcohol statistics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/Alcohol\/\" target=\"_blank\">alcohol<\/a>-related and <a title=\"CDC tobacco death data\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/tobacco\/data_statistics\/fact_sheets\/health_effects\/tobacco_related_mortality\/\" target=\"_blank\">tobacco<\/a>-related deaths and you choose which is much more harmful to society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[199,52,1842,117,1843,1844,1845,56,9,1846,1847,51,1848,299,59,1849,1850,1,3,1851,1852],"tags":[2777,2632,4410,2695,4411,4412,4413,2636,4414,4415,2631,4416,2877,2639,4417,4418,4419,4420],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847"}],"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=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}