Legalization of Recreational Marijuana: Assessing Risk in Child WelfareAmber McDonald, LCSW
Legalization of recreational marijuana:Marijuana is now legal for adult recreational use. This means that cannabis is now considered a “lawful consumable product” in the state. The new law established a new Office of Cannabis Management, created an expungement process for marijuana-related offenses,...
Recent results from an Oregon Research Institute (ORI) study indicate that the influence of legalization on youth may depend on whether they were already using at the time of legalization. Following legalization of recreational marijuana, no significant changes in the numbers of youth who used mariju...
Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who has pushed for full legalization of recreational marijuana, says he supports a more limited medical marijuana legalization being promoted by Republicans in an Associated Press interview on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024,...
EVERGREEN: THE ROAD TO LEGALIZATIONis the definitive feature documentary film on the legalization of recreational marijuana in Washington State, examining the inside story of I-502 and the groundbreaking impact of this controversial decision on American drug policy. ...
CigarettesThe impact of legalization of marijuana for recreational use in Colorado has been studied to assess its effect on crime rates, hospitalizations, traffic accidendoi:10.2139/ssrn.3508422Bhave, AshutoshMurthi, B. P. S.Social Science Electronic Publishing...
With the legalization of recreational marijuana looming in Canada, therapeutic producer Aurora said Monday it was acquiring rival MedReleaf Corp. in a huge deal set to create a giant company. Aurora said it would pay Can$3.2 billion ($2.51 billion) as part of an all-stock deal that will le...
assistant professor of criminal justice at Stockton University, who is the first author on a paper about the study. “Given the likelihood of more states legalizing recreational marijuana, we felt it was important to apply robust empirical methods to parse out the effects of this acti...
LOS ANGELES -- Pot smokers in California are counting down to the New Year's "toke of midnight." On Jan. 1, the nation's most populous state will become the eighth (along with Washington, D.C.) to have legalized recreational marijuana. As the holder of the very first state license ...
On October 17, 2018,Canada officially legalized the possession and recreational use of marijuana useby adults. It was only the second country in the world to do so (the first country was Uruguay, which legalized marijuana use in 2013). Other countries where marijuana has been legalized include...