Marijuana legalization will win big on Election Day: Here’s why
Voters in five states – Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada – will decide this November on ballot initiatives seeking to legalize and regulate the adult use, production, and retail sale of marijuana. Polling data shows these measures to be leading among likely voters.
Predictably, those opposed to amending cannabis’ criminal status are warning that these proposed changes in marijuana policy will lead to a plethora of unintended consequences. Yet the initial experiences in jurisdictions like Colorado, Oregon, and Washington have shown these fears to be largely misplaced.
According to a just-released analysis by the Washington, DC think-tank The CATO Institute, the enactment of statewide laws regulating the adult use, production, and retail sale of cannabis has had negligible, if any, adverse impact on overall health and safety. Researchers from Harvard University assessed the impact of adult-use regulation laws in Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington on a variety of health...
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