Study: Far Fewer High-Schoolers Are Consuming Cannabis
October 30, 2024
“The continued criminalization of cannabis only compounds the public safety risks that the unregulated marketplace poses to young people and others.”
“The continued criminalization of cannabis only compounds the public safety risks that the unregulated marketplace poses to young people and others.”
Researchers with the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor surveyed over 1,100 US adults regarding where they obtain cannabis-related information
Analysis: “There is a higher prevalence of physical activity in areas with legalized cannabis, particularly for recreation.”
Behind every one of these arrests, there’s a person – a person with a family, a person with a story
Of those charged with violating marijuana laws in 2023, 84% were charged with possession only
Investigators “did not observe functional differences between baseline and brain activation at one-year during working memory, reward processing, or inhibitory control tasks.”
“The scientific evidence in favor of removing cannabis from Schedule I remains overwhelming.”
“Neither past nor current cannabis use should automatically preclude someone from legal protections explicitly provided by the US Constitution.”
Twenty-seven percent of respondents also said that cannabis reduced their use of other illegal drugs.
Neither the passage of adult-use marijuana legalization laws nor the advent of retail cannabis sales is associated with increased marijuana use by adolescents.
