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"Myths About High Times in America"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this interesting piece in the Washington Post by Ryan Grim, who is also the author of "This Is Your Country On Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America."  Here are two parts of the piece I found especially interesting: Myth 3. Legalization will increase teen drug use.  But the children!  Californians fretted loudly in 1996 that the state's new medical marijuana law would lead to an increase in teen pot-smoking, so the state studied it closely.  The attorney general's first look a year later found no effect. The office looked again a decade later.  Teen use had collapsed. Among seventh- and 11th-graders, the number of kids saying they'd smoked in the last month fell by a quarter; among ninth-graders, it fell by 47 percent...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 09, 2009 (boomark / email).