“What’s the conservative conclusion for government policy?”
I’m not an expert in it. I personally lean toward legalization (at least reducing marijuana from its current schedule 1 status), but regulatory control to limit extracts.
It is clearly going to hard to define/enforce such restrictions on concentrated extracts, when the product itself is legal. There are good reasons to prefer clean and precise extracts over relatively dirty and variable marijuana. So it is messy.
I guess my real bottom line is that we be clear-eyed and objective about the down side risks, and manage them as more is known. Some degree of risk is inherent in most anything, so judgments must be made, both personally and legally.
There are downsides to just regular marijuana use as well, but I fear that concentrates bring a subset of even more serious risks - including some number of acute deaths and psychosis.
And alcohol. What's the conservative conclusion for government policy?
I’m not an expert in it.
Government is too important to be left to "experts."
I personally lean toward legalization (at least reducing marijuana from its current schedule 1 status), but regulatory control to limit extracts.
See? With no expertise, you got the right answer. :)