NORML Op-Ed: In the Era of Legal Marijuana, The Kids Are Alright
States’ real-world experience with marijuana legalization affirms that these policies can be implemented in a way that provides regulated access for adults while simultaneously limiting youth access...
View ArticleFederal Report: Marijuana Use by Teens Continues Decade-Long Decline
“States’ real-world experience with marijuana legalization affirms that these policies can be implemented in a way that provides regulated access for adults while simultaneously limiting youth access...
View ArticleAnalysis: Proximity to Cannabis Dispensaries Not Correlated with Higher Rates...
"This study found no evidence for increased cannabis use among youth living in zip codes with active medical cannabis dispensaries. In fact, 12th graders living in zip codes with dispensaries had lower...
View ArticleJAMA Pediatrics: Legalization Laws Linked With Fewer Teens Using Marijuana,...
“Together, results found no net increases in cannabis or, through spillover effects, alcohol or tobacco use among adolescents in response to the rapid rise of RCL [recreational cannabis legalization]...
View ArticleJAMA Psychiatry: “No Evidence” That Marijuana Legalization Laws Encourage...
Consistent with prior analyses, researchers determined, “There was no evidence that RML [recreational marijuana laws] were associated with encouraging youth marijuana use." The post JAMA Psychiatry:...
View ArticleAnalysis: No Increase in Rates of Marijuana Use Among Youth Over Past Decade
“Prevalence of cannabis use did not change among youth over time,” the study’s authors concluded. The post Analysis: No Increase in Rates of Marijuana Use Among Youth Over Past Decade appeared first on...
View ArticleGovernment Survey Data Shows Nearly 20 Percent Decline in Teen Marijuana Use...
The NSDUH data reports that the percentage of those ages 12 to 17 who reported having ever tried marijuana fell 18 percent from 2014 to 2023. Those reporting having consumed cannabis during the past...
View ArticleNORML Op-Ed: A Decade Into States Legalizing Marijuana, Underage Use Has...
Those wedded to the status quo of cannabis criminalization have long warned that legalizing the marijuana market will result in increased adolescent use. But 10 years following the first states’...
View ArticleStudy: Far Fewer High-Schoolers Are Consuming Cannabis
"States' real-world experience with marijuana legalization proves that these policies can be implemented in a manner that provides regulated access for adults while simultaneously limiting youth access...
View ArticleFederally Funded Survey: Marijuana Use By Teens Is at Historic Low
In the past decade alone, during which time 24 states legalized adult use marijuana sales, the percentage of 8th graders, 10th graders, and 12 graders who reported having ever consumed cannabis...
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