Colorado, Washington, Alaska and Oregon all experienced big increases in both deposits and lending shortly after legalizing marijuana for recreational use.
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Growing weed indoors is not an environmentally friendly process. Climate controls create a lot of greenhouse gas emissions, and where the pot is produced has a huge influence on emission levels.
Decriminalizing medical and recreational marijuana may exacerbate racial inequality within the criminal justice system, among other things.
Pot taxes will change the ability of some to purchase recreational marijuana.
To fight the black market, the price of legal cannabis has to be relatively low. But if nothing else is done, the black market will persist.
Marijuana is known for delivering a good high. But the plant’s uses go well beyond the recreational. Marijuana contains a trove of medicinal compounds whose uses we are just now discovering.
About two-thirds of Americans now live in states where marijuana is legal for medicinal or recreational purposes, leading some to worry corporate and Wall Street interests will take over the industry.
In advance of marijuana legalization in Canada, one university in British Columbia has taken a firm stance, banning all smoking of cannabis products on campus.
Cannabis use is linked to psychosis, but only a small number of users will experience it.
Canada is legalizing marijuana on July 1. But how the drug became criminalized in the first place is an interesting saga that involves anti-Chinese racism and international influence.
In competing with Canada’s black markets, legal cannabis has potential strengths and weaknesses. Most flow directly from governments’ policy choices.
The promised marijuana legalization date of July 2018 is approaching fast. Many outstanding regulatory issues – such as online sales and occupational health and safety – pose urgent challenges.
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Professor; NHMRC Clinical Research Fellow; NICM Health Research Institute Deputy Director, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor of Law, Concordia University School of Law
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Associate Professor, Operations Research, Brock University
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Postdoctoctoral Scholar, Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary
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Assistant Professor and Director, Health Technology Assessment Unit , University of Calgary
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Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Southern California
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Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sustainability Research Laboratory, Colorado State University
