“Will the publication of this latest study put to rest the false notion that medical cannabis legalization stimulates non-medical pot use? Probably not, but it is a start. Notably, government officials seem finally to be getting the message. Speaking to the Tampa Bay Times last month, the deputy director of the US National Institute on Drug Abuse acknowledged, ‘We cannot draw a clean link between medical marijuana and shifting drug usage rates.’ He’s right and it’s high time for the likes of David Evans and Kevin Sabet to stop shamelessly claiming otherwise.”
http://www.alternet.org/drugs/latest-pot-myth-smacked-down-science?paging=off
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