When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Improves

Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by thrower123 on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @10:51AM (#18346144)

Tobacco shows probably the most effective way to reduce consumption of something - make it legal, but put heavy sin taxes on it. It's hard to keep a heavy cigarette habit going when a pack of Marlboros is like $10.

I don't smoke marijuana, but I'd like to see it legalized, if for no other reason than to shift law enforcement resources to more important things - when people are dying every day from Fentanyl overdoses, busting pot smokers and growers is asinine.

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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by josefresco on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @10:56AM (#18346184)

Heavy taxing and regulation will be (and is) a boon to the cannabis black market. In my state (MA), cannabis was legalized, but individual towns are preventing recreational shops from opening. The result? A booming, home-grown cannabis market.

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