Minnesota legalized recreational marijuana on Tuesday, raising concerns that teenagers' access to the drug will increase, as well as mental health problems among young adults.
Marijuana was legalized on the heels of reports connecting marijuana usage in young people to depression, suicidality, schizophrenia, psychosis, addiction, and other mental health concerns.In the past, marijuana consumers had been dealing with a"much lower-potency product," Republican Minnesota state Sen.
A higher risk comes as the potency of tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive compound in marijuana, has increased substantially. In 1995, the average potency was at about 4%. By 2008, it had more than doubled to nearly 9%, which increased to 12% in 2014, and then to over 17% in 2017. Commenting on a study he conducted, Columbia University professor of clinical psychiatry Ryan Sultan said,"We were surprised to see that cannabis use had such strong associations to adverse mental health and life outcomes for teens who did not meet the criteria for having a substance use condition," explaining the typical perception among many is that"casual cannabis use is benign.
"Proponents are being grossly irresponsible," Abeler told the Washington Examiner, casting doubt on the effectiveness of the law's prevention and treatment provisions."I'm shocked at the Department of Health in Minnesota." Minnesota is also set to expunge an estimated 66,796 marijuana-related records automatically as part of the bill's effort to clean the criminal histories of its citizens.
People who"live in low-income areas that have experienced a disproportionate impact from cannabis prohibition," military veterans who lost honorable status due to marijuana, and those convicted of marijuana-related offenses will also be the state's preferred applicants for business licenses in the new regulatory setup, proponents say, to quell the black market and standardize the product.
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