Survey Indicates Adolescent Marijuana Use Fell After Colorado Pot Shops Opened
The data still don't show a significant increase in underage consumption after Colorado and Washington legalized.
The data still don't show a significant increase in underage consumption after Colorado and Washington legalized.
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The latest survey data indicate that legalization has not driven a national surge in adolescent pot smoking.
Legalization proponents chipping in with extra volunteers.
New regulations are crippling the industry.
A task force emphasizes the importance of displacing the black market.
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The president plans to do something about it "as a private citizen."
Even in states that have legalized marijuana, using it means sacrificing your right to armed self-defense.
The report also warns that the THC content of marijuana edibles is "anywhere between 70 and 100 percent."
By choosing a diehard prohibitionist for attorney general, the president-elect casts doubt on his commitment to marijuana federalism.
Denver's newly approved pilot program won't include bars or restaurants with liquor licenses.
Jeff Sessions opposes sentencing reform, defends civil forfeiture, and criticizes the Obama administration for letting states legalize marijuana.
Overregulation of the industry keeps business owners in limbo.
Denver voters rejected the idea that marijuana use should be confined to the home.
Seven more states legalize marijuana for recreational or medical use.
Four states open the door to on-site consumption in pot shops, while Denver will let people bring their own marijuana to use in specially licensed businesses.
He still implies that strangers with candy are trying to get kids high.
Yesterday voters made marijuana legal in four more states and approved medical access in four others.
It is the second state on the East Coast to do so, joining Massachusetts.
Voters approved medical marijuana by a razor-thin margin in 2010.
Six states have now decided to tolerate cannabis consumption without a doctor's note.
Passage of Question 4 creates a pot-tolerant foothold in the Northeast.
Twenty-eight states now have laws allowing patients to use cannabis for symptom relief.
A measure letting patients use cannabis for symptom relief passes by a surprisingly wide margin.
Support for Amendment 2 far exceeds 60 percent, the threshold for approval.
Support for legalization hovers around 50 percent in Maine, Arizona, and Nevada.
There's more to this election than Trump and Clinton.
It is still better than prohibition.
The Drug Free America Foundation claims an imaginary prank "highlights the very real dangers legal marijuana has on children."
May become a victim of irrational anti-gun sentiments too.
Warnings of pot in trick-or-treat bags still have no basis in reality.
Opponents of legalization promote misleading claims about crime, taxes, underage use, and traffic fatalities.
Local elected officials will have important decisions to make about taxes if California voters legalize weed in November.
Legal weed means fewer prescriptions for pharmaceutical drugs. That's not a bad thing, unless you make those drugs.
Polling also suggests Florida will become the first Southern state to allow medical use.
Cannabis candy in trick-or-treat bags is "a very real scenario," they warn. It's not.
John Roselius, who famously warned that drugs would fry your brain like an egg, says he has changed his mind about pot.
A pilot program would let businesses establish "designated consumption areas," subject to approval by local busybodies.
Was it really only six years ago when recreational pot got smacked down in the Golden State by a giggling political class?
We need more candidness from politicians, even if it means a little less sobriety.
According to Gallup, 60 percent of Americans oppose pot prohibition.
And then forces all suppliers to shut down.
A longtime drug warrior, Clinton has softened her public positions on marijuana. But does she mean it?
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