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60 Minutes Reports on What we all Know: PROP 64 – NOTHING IS WORKING! https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marijuana-in-california-black-market-weed-buzzkills-for-california-legal-weed-industry-60-minutes-2020-08-02/ The Pot Industry Will Not Be Regulated This should be a warning to other states (and nations).  You can’t regulate inherently criminal activity. Legalizing something harmful never removes the harm.  It just changes the legal consequences usually for those who promote,

For Immediate Release: August 3rd, 2020 BREAKING: New Colorado Data Show Youth Marijuana Use Increasing Since 2017 Increase also seen since period when legalization started; youth dabbing quintupled in recent years (Alexandria, Va) – Today, a new survey released by the state of Colorado finds that marijuana use has skyrocketed in the last two years

   A study recently released by the University of Washington finds that marijuana legalization and commercialization may have begun a reversal of previous downward trends in teen marijuana use. The study, which followed 230 teens and young adults, found that young people may be more likely to use marijuana after commercialization, due to normalization as a result

Americans Against Legalizing Marijuana (AALM) have produced a White Paper accurately challenging the false narrative that legalization and commercialization of marijuana will bring social justice to minority communiaties. Minority and poor communities have historically been disproportionately harmed by drug use, drug normalization, and drug addiction. Each of those and many other problems gets worse with pot legalization. 

Smoke Screen A 45-minute expose of the man-made disaster that is marijuana. Watch IT! Watch it Again. Practice and Use the facts and talking point Send it to everyone you know Show it to your kids, to your kid’s friends, to your grand-kids Send it to the parents you know Send to your mayor, city

Two Sources of Cannabis Addiction Brain changes from using THC too frequently cause withdrawal and craving. Cannabis causes two distinct changes in brain chemistry, physiology, and function that combine to create dependence. Its main psychoactive ingredient, THC, reduces the normal number of natural cannabinoid receptors, a process called downregulation. THC also alters reward circuitry, bending