This technical report provides historical perspectives and comparisons of various approaches to the legal status of marijuana to aid in forming public policy. Information on the impact that decriminalization and legalization of marijuana could have on adolescents, in addition to concerns surrounding medicinal use of marijuana, are also addressed in this report. Recommendations are included in the accompanying policy statement.
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Copyright © 2004 by the American Academy of Pediatrics
2004
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Dr. David Musto, a lead narcotics historian and professor of medical history at Yale University told the New York Times in 1986 that people turn off drugs not from government brochures but from observational damage - what a sad comment on society that we can not do more to prevent and that it only damage that shows us the way to correct public health policy. We need to do a much better job at education regardless.