Teen marijuana use down in states with medical marijuana programs
That’s right, ring the bells and sound the alarms. Who would have thought that when you legalize, tax, and control a substance, that substance is harder for underage kids to obtain.
The MMP has a report that in state where medical marijuana is legal, marijuana use among teenagers has decreased in all these states. This means it’s probably not just a fluke that happened once in one place.
“When states consider proposals to allow the medical use of marijuana under state law, the concern often arises that such laws might “send the wrong message” and therefore cause an increase in marijuana use among young people. The available evidence strongly suggests that this hypothesis is incorrect and that enactment of state medical marijuana laws has not increased adolescent marijuana use. Consequently, legislators should evaluate medical marijuana proposals based on their own merits ‘ without regard for the speculative and unsupported assertions about the bills sending the “wrong message”.
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