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To: NobleFree

Colorado:

Marijuana is the most common drug found in the toxicology of teenagers who have committed suicide. Between 2014 and 2018, the proportion of suicides under the influence of marijuana has increased from 14 to 23%.

Of teenagers aged 15-19 who committed suicide in 2018, 37% tested positive for marijuana (of the two thirds whose toxicology information was available). The trend appears to be exacerbated by the growing potency of the drug, which causes irreversible damage to teenagers’ health.

https://rtd.rt.com/stories/effects-of-marijuana-legalisation/


64 posted on 01/25/2022 6:35:04 PM PST by Does so (Americans had no desire for war between 1939 and 1941. Rheinland? Sometimes...War Finds YOU!)
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To: Does so

“Between 2014 and 2018, the proportion of suicides under the influence of marijuana has increased from 14 to 23%.”

It also increased in nonlegalizing states; “Liberalized marijuana policies do not appear to have influenced increases in marijuana-positive toxicologies among youth” - https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-23139-053


65 posted on 01/27/2022 10:50:13 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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