{"id":46349,"date":"2014-10-13T18:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T18:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_colorado_lab_rat_campaign_warns_teens_of_pot_use\/"},"modified":"2014-10-13T18:00:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T18:00:14","slug":"wsj_colorado_lab_rat_campaign_warns_teens_of_pot_use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46349","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Colorado \u201d\u02dcLab Rat\u2019 Campaign Warns Teens of Pot Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a state where legal marijuana seemingly is everywhere, Colorado public health officials have taken an unusual approach to warning teenagers about the dangers of the drug: likening young pot smokers to laboratory animals.<\/p>\n<p>Concerned about a potential jump in youth marijuana use now that the state has legalized the drug for adults, Colorado is displaying three human-size cages in various communities with signs that bear provocative messages about the drug\u2019s pitfalls, as part of its \u201cDon\u2019t Be A Lab Rat\u201d\u009d campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes Marijuana really cause schizophrenia in teenagers? Smoke and find out,\u201d\u009d one sign says. \u201cSubjects needed. Must be a teenager. Must smoke weed. Must have 8 IQ points to spare,\u201d\u009d reads another.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/lab-rat-ads-warn-teens-of-pot-use-1412560470\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a state where legal marijuana seemingly is everywhere, Colorado public health officials have taken an unusual approach to warning teenagers about the dangers of the drug: likening young pot smokers to laboratory animals. Concerned about a potential jump in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46349\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,175,99,168,104,114,89,151,619,110,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-media","category-politics-in-general","category-state-government","category-teens-youth","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}