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A huge new study finds that medical marijuana doesn't 'send the wrong message' to kids

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 06/17/2015 - 10:42

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Since the 1970s, advocates of an aggressive drug war have maintained that any liberalization of drug laws would “send the wrong message” to kids and increase adolescent drug use. This claim has been asserted repeatedly particularly in the debate over medical marijuana laws.

But there’s an ever-growing body of peer-reviewed research suggesting otherwise, and the latest such study comes from a group of researchers at Columbia University in New York and elsewhere in this week’s journal of Lancet Psychiatry.

The authors analyzed 24 years of state-level survey data from the Monitoring the Future Survey, a large annual survey of 8th, 10th and 12th-graders in the U.S. The data included interviews with more than 1 million respondents, which the authors crunched to determine two things: First, is teen marijuana use higher in states that have medical marijuana laws? And second, did the passage of these laws...

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