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If you choose to follow any links to the abstract and/or complete text of the item listed below, you will be leaving the Strategian Web site. If you wish to return to this page from the Web page you are sent to, please use the Back option of your browser. Alain Joffe and W. Samuel Yancy and the Committee on Substance Abuse and Committee on Adolescence, American Academy of Pediatrics Technical Report -- Legalization of Marijuana: Potential Impact on Youth. (... this 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. The authors summarize their findings by saying that several recent studies concerning American adolescents, the Dutch experience with decriminalization [from 1984 to 1992], and the relationship between cheaper marijuana and use by adolescents suggest that decriminalization increases marijuana use by adolescents. Because no country has legalized use of marijuana outright, there are no studies available to evaluate the potential effect of legalization in the United States. Legalization of marijuana could decrease adolescents' perceptions of the risk of use and increase their exposure to this drug. Furthermore, data concerning adolescents' use of the 2 drugs that are legal for adults [alcohol and tobacco] suggest strongly that legalization of marijuana would have a negative effect on youth. Alcohol and tobacco are the drugs most widely abused by adolescents, although their sale to adolescents [younger than 18 years for tobacco and younger than 21 years for alcohol] is illegal. Research demonstrates that manufacturers of alcohol and tobacco market their products to young people, and the recent Supreme Court decision and experience with the Synar Amendment suggest that, if marijuana were legalized, restrictions on the sale and advertising of the substance to young people would prove daunting. Finally, two in-depth reviews of medical marijuana conclude that future research should focus on the medical use of cannabinoids, not smoked marijuana. Other keywords and phrases -- adolescent, controversial, controversy, legal, Netherlands, substance abuse -- from the text of the abstract and the article) Pediatrics Volume 113, Number 6 (June 2004): pages e632-e638. **The complete text of the article is available at http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/113/6/e632 (the Web site of Pediatrics)** **The complete text of the June 2004 American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement -- Legalization of Marijuana: Potential Impact on Youth is available at http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/113/6/1825?ijkey=56cbd81c10a80583f6f0ef2d4b30acea4ce34f2b (the Web site of Pediatrics)** How to find the above journal, magazine, or other publication? See Step 3: Locate of the Information Strategy for details. Questions? Please let me know. |
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