Eric Martin, MA C , CADC III, CPS ACCBO, Policy & Legislative - - PDF document

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Eric Martin, MAC, CADC III, CPS

ACCBO, Policy & Legislative Liaison, 2008-present ACCBO, Past-president & Director Emeritus, 1991-2008 Adjunct Faculty, University of Oregon, 2000-present Governor’s Advisory Board on Drugs & Violent Crime, 2004-2006 Governor’s Council on Substance Abuse Programs, 2007-2009 Commission, Co-Chair, Oregon THW Commission, 2013-present Up in Smoke: Marijuana Education/Intervention Specialist Consulting Editor; NIDA Science to Practice Perspectives Certified NAADAC Case Presentation Examiner ICRC Examination Proctor

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Marijuana voted in as legal

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Medical Marijuana applications reach all time high in June 2015

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Legalization vs. “non-enforcement”

U.N. Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs

• started with the League of Nations – precursor in 1912 (led to

Harrison Narcotic Act)

• The Single Convention officiated with 73 nations in 1961
• 193 counties now represented

Article 23 & 28: Cultivation only for medical and scientific purposes. Article 36: requires criminalization of "cultivation, production, manufacture, extraction, preparation, possession, offering, offering for sale, distribution, purchase, sale, delivery on any terms whatsoever, brokerage, dispatch, dispatch in transit, transport, importation and exportation of drugs contrary to the provisions of this Convention.”

• Paul Stanford
• Ballot Measure 80
• Understood impediment of

the U.N. Single Convention on Drugs

• Operates retail stores and

dispensaries in 12 States (Anna Song, KATU)

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Inslee meets with Obama & Eric Holder

• DOJ lays out 8 key measures for

Washington to proceed with retail sales of marijuana

• 1st and foremost: keeping marijuana out of

the hands of kids

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Marijuana Epidemiology National Data from NSDUH About 34.2%-43.7% of Americans have used marijuana (2000-2013) About 10.10%-12.6% of Americans have used in the past year (2000-2013) About 5.8%-7.5% of Americans are regular users (past month) (2000-2013) About 4% of marijuana users are chronic users, 5-7 days per week. (2000-2011)

SAMHSA National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002-2013)

What percentage of the population develops Marijuana Addiction, Abuse, Dependence, etc..

NORML reported that “approximately 8% of marijuana users develop a pattern of abuse and dependence problems”.

NORML, recorded testimony to Congress 1999 Cannabis Dependence: Its Nature, Consequences and Treatment, Marlatt, 2006

8-9% meet diagnostic criteria for cannabis dependence, Cannabis Dependence: Its Nature, Consequences and Treatment, Marlatt, 2006

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Past Month 9% Weekends plus 4% Less than yearly 57% Past Year 26% Daily 4%

Of the 43% of Americans who smoke marijuana

(approx. 113 million Americans, 12 and older)

92% of marijuana users consume marijuana less than weekly

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2015 Marijuana Use Past Year, 12 and older

2013-2014 concatenated years (n=144,000) SAMHSA, Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality

State Percent of Population U.S. Rank D.C. 21.70% 1# Colorado 20.74% 2# Vermont 19.97% 3# Alaska 19.60% 4# Maine 19.55% 5#

Oregon 19.39% 6#

Lowest South Dakota 8.97% 51#

2015 Marijuana Use Past Year, 12-17

2013-2014 concatenated years (n=144,000) SAMHSA, Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality

State Percent of Population U.S. Rank Colorado 20.81% 1# D.C. 19.41% 2#

Oregon 18.32% 3#

Vermont 18.27% 4# Washington 17.53% 5# Alaska 17.30% 6# Lowest South Dakota 9.95% 51#

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2015 Marijuana Use Past Month, 12 and older

2013-2014 concatenated years (n=144,000) SAMHSA, Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality

State Percent of Population U.S. Rank Colorado 14.93% 1# Vermont 13.24% 2# Washington 12.79% 3# Rhode Island 12.75% 4# Maine 12.67% 5# D.C. 12.60% 6#

Oregon 12.38% 7#

Lowest South Dakota 4.81% 51#

2015 Marijuana Use Past Year, 12 and older

2013-2014 concatenated years (n=144,000) SAMHSA, Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality

State Percent of Population U.S. Rank Colorado 12.56% 1# Vermont 11.40% 2# Rhode Island 10.69% 3# D.C. 10.56% 4# Oregon 10.19% 5# Washington 10.06% 6# Lowest Alabama 4.98% 51#

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Daily or Almost Daily Marijuana Use in the Past Year and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 or Older: 2002-2012

1 time in past month? Or, 31 times in past month?

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Inslee meets with Obama & Eric Holder

• DOJ lays out 8 key measures for

Washington to proceed with retail sales of marijuana

• 1st and foremost: keeping marijuana out of

the hands of kids

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Colorado Department of Revenue

Occasional (5 times or less) 53.7% consuming 3.6% Daily (26 times or more) 21.8% consuming 66.9%

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Feds 2014 annual report

• Released in 2015
• Makes no specific mention
• f youth marijuana use.
• No charts on marijuana use.
• Only one chart in entire

report, no other data.

We NEED…

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What is trimming? This not a long-term career plan

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People want to drink and smoke stuff that’s PRETTY

nasty cigar nasty looking beer

Pretty Buds

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Pretty Nugs

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How long have people been smoking (tobacco, weed,

• pium, etc.)?
• 1. 1,000 years
• 2. 2,000 years
• 3. 5,000 years
• 4. 10,000 or more years

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Possibly the oldest known depiction of pipe/tube smoking from 1000 A.D.

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Buc Buckingham P ingham Palace lace

In 1588, Abul-Fath Gilani, a Persian physician at the Indian court of the Emperor Akbar, invented the Hookah. Possibly the

• ldest known

depiction of pipe/tube smoking from 1000 A.D.

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