May 4, 2004 UCSC sociologist says making pot legal does not boost use By ANNA GOSLINE Sentinel Correspondent SANTA CRUZ — A leading critic of U.S. drug policy contends there is no link between the decriminalization of marijuana and increased drug use. In research published in the May issue of the American Journal of Public Health, Craig Reinarman, a UC Santa Cruz sociologist, said he found there was no difference between drug-use rates in Amsterdam, where marijuana is freely bought at licensed coffee shops, and San Francisco, where pot-smokers still can get busted. "Drug policy doesn’t appear to have much...
