From WSJopinion: We should learn from our current drug epidemics—tobacco and opioids. Both have been disastrous, and both stem from legal industries whose business model is to profit from addiction, writes KevinSabet.
his goals are to “ensure restorative justice, public health, and implement responsible taxes and regulations.” While many legalization advocates and pot-industry lobbyists are praising the bill, scientists and top researchers are urging senators to proceed carefully, and they’re right to counsel caution.
It’s valid to be concerned about the harms of drug policies. The war on drugs has disproportionately affected low-income communities and people of color. It would be productive to decriminalize low-level marijuana possession and allow arrest records to be expunged. President Biden supports such decriminalization.
On the same day the Senate draft bill was released, a panel of 13 world-renowned marijuana researchers, including Hoover Adger of Johns Hopkins,to Mr. Schumer that outlined three worrying trends in states that have legalized marijuana. First, states that allow the marijuana industry to produce and market products are seeing a rise in candies, vaping oils, concentrates and other forms of extremely high-potency products. It’s common to see products with levels of THC—the main psychoactive component of marijuana—upward of 90%. The market share of such concentrated marijuana products is rapidly growing.
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