Study: Legalized Medical Marijuana Doesn’t Impact Teen Use Rates

by Gary Kopycinski on August 1, 2014

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Denver, CO–(ENEWSPF)–August 1, 2014. The passage of state laws legalizing the physician-recommended possession and consumption of cannabis by qualified patients has not led to an increase in adolescents’ use of the plant, according to a working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research – a non-partisan research organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.