{"id":18447,"date":"2024-12-10T19:57:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T18:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=18447"},"modified":"2025-05-10T17:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T16:53:17","slug":"lessons-learned-from-marijuana-legalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2024\/12\/lessons-learned-from-marijuana-legalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons Learned From Marijuana Legalization"},"content":{"rendered":"

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EXECUTIVE HIGHLIGHTS<\/span>
\nToday\u2019s highly potent marijuana represents a growing and significant threat to public health and safety, a threat that is amplified by a new<\/span>
\nmarijuana industry intent on profiting from heavy use.<\/span>
\nState laws allowing marijuana sales and consumption have permitted the marijuana industry to flourish, and in turn, the marijuana industry has influenced both policies and policy-makers. While the consequences of these policies will not be known for decades, early indicators are<\/span>
\ntroubling.<\/span>
\nThis report, reviewed by prominent scientists and researchers, serves as an evidence-based guide to what we currently observe in various states. We attempted to highlight studies from all the \u201clegal\u201d marijuana states (i.e., states that have legalized the non-medical use of marijuana). Unfortunately, data does not exist for several \u201clegal\u201d states, and so this document synthesizes the latest research on marijuana impacts in states where information is available<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information please read the full information below:<\/span><\/p>\n

2019LessonsFinal<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Source: https:\/\/learnaboutsam.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2019LessonsFinal.pdf<\/a> July 2019<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EXECUTIVE HIGHLIGHTS Today\u2019s highly potent marijuana represents a growing and significant threat to public health and safety, a threat that is amplified by a new marijuana industry intent on profiting from heavy use. State laws allowing marijuana sales and consumption have permitted the marijuana industry to flourish, and in turn, the marijuana industry has influenced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,68,82,90,64,104,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-marijuana","category-drug-use-various-effects","category-economic","category-global-drug-legalisation-efforts","category-health","category-political-sector","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}