Marijuana’s ability to cause psychosis is one of its longest-known and best-documented side effects.
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California is awash in cannabis cash. Some is being used to bribe public officials→
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In the more than two years since California voters approved the licensed growing and sale of recreational marijuana, the state has seen a half-dozen government corruption cases as black-market operators try to game the system, through bribery and other means. The cases are tarnishing an already troubled roll-out of the state permitting of pot businesses as provided for when voters approved Proposition 64 in November 2016.
Read MoreBig Marijuana moves to exploit the Opioid Epidemic
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The National Institute on Drug Abuse analyzed data from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions and found respondents who reported past-year marijuana use in their initial interview had 2.2 times higher odds than nonusers for having a prescription opioid use disorder and 2.6 times greater odds of abusing prescription opioids.i
Read MoreBlack market marijuana busts nearly quadruple under recreational legalization→
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Four years after legal recreational marijuana went on sale in Colorado, Gov. John Hickenlooper says the black market for marijuana in the state is shrinking and predicted that it "will be largely gone" in a few years.
But new statistics show that arrests for the production of black market pot increased by 380 percent in the 2014-16 time frame, and Colorado law enforcement agencies say they are battling a boom in illegal marijuana cultivation by sometimes violent groups of criminals who rake in millions of dollars by exporting what they grow.
Read MoreNew Surgeon General's Report Highlights Dangers of Marijuana Use
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The new data confirms mounting body of scientific evidence highlighting problems with rising marijuana use
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