{"id":2045,"date":"2019-03-25T14:20:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T03:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/top-yale-professor-slams-weed\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:02:15","slug":"top-yale-professor-slams-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/top-yale-professor-slams-weed\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Yale Professor \u2013 Slams Weed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the state\u2019s most vocal opponents of legalizing recreational marijuana in recent years has been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.yale.edu\/psychiatry\/people\/deepak_dsouza.profile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Deepak D\u2019Souza<\/a>, a research scientist and professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>In&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newhavenindependent.org\/index.php\/archives\/entry\/no_legialzation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">testimony before the legislature<\/a>&nbsp;and in his role as a member of the state medical marijuana program\u2019s board of physicians, an advisory group for lawmakers, D\u2019Souza has laid out what he says are the dangers of legalization. His four areas of concern are the impact on young people and the developing brain; the anticipated increase in cannabis use disorder; the negative impact on people with serious mental illness; and increased motor vehicle accidents.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connecticutmag.com\/health-and-science\/a-yale-doctor-warns-of-dangers-of-pot-legalization\/article_00f4fdb0-49be-11e9-9a8b-e38ab4226045.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=user-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">For complete article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the state\u2019s most vocal opponents of legalizing recreational marijuana in recent years has been&nbsp;Dr. Deepak D\u2019Souza, a research scientist and professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. 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