A newly released report in Colorado doesn’t give marijuana legalization many positive marks. In fact, it points to a troubling 32-percent increase in marijuana-related traffic deaths in just one year from 2013, with a 92 percent increase from 2010 to 2014. What’s more, drug-related suspensions and expulsions increased 40 percent between school years 2008-2009 and […]
This week, the Department of Health and Human Services found that marijuana use among all Americans 12 and over – especially those over 26 – significantly increased in 2014 compared to 2013. The number of 16 and 17 year-olds using marijuana in the past month also increased, (14.2% versus 15.0%). “We should not be surprised […]
Maine is not the only state facing likely marijuana legalization ballot initiatives. Indeed this year in 2015, voters in Ohio will be voting on an initiative to legalize marijuana in their state. The pro-pot group that is behind that initiative is ResponsibleOhio, and this week they unveiled a new mascot for their initiative. Buddie. Here […]
This statement may not be terribly shocking, but I have some issues with medical marijuana. I could go on and on about the reports that come out on a regular basis proving that medical marijuana has been based on anything but reputable science. (It’s interesting that when this is pointed out that the reaction of […]
So there was some pretty big, but sadly unsurprising news coming out of Colorado yesterday. It was reported that a new statewide survey funded by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment found that 13.6% of adults in Colorado are regular users of marijuana. This is almost double the national rate of 7.4%. Denver, […]
On Wednesday, a large coalition of leading behavioral health, medical, and public health organizations testified in opposition to LD 1380 and LD 1401, bills that would legalize recreational marijuana in Maine AUGUSTA – Despite efforts of marijuana legalization advocates to spin marijuana legalization as inevitable, a large coalition of organizations joined forces to strongly oppose […]
This Wednesday at 1 PM in State House 436, the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee will have hearings on two bills seeking to legalize recreational marijuana in Maine. The bills are LD 1380 from Representative Diane Russell (D-Portland) and LD 1401 from Representative Mark Dion (D-Portland). Both bills offer 30-some odd pages of language […]
Hello and welcome to the first proper blog entry on Smart Approaches to Public Health. It is a happy coincidence that the unveiling and launch of this blog was on the same day as another important unveiling. Today, Project SAM (Smart Approaches to Marijuana) released a video entitled “Big Tobacco 2.0” The video draws parallels […]
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