The Pathways Report, released on July 21, 2015, provides the broad recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Commission for Marijuana Policy. The report draws from the research and public forums of the Blue Ribbon Commission to provide a comprehensive view of the strategies, policy goals, and policy options available to Californians as they consider the legalization and taxation of marijuana policy.
Californians are reasonably concerned about the impact upon youth of adding marijuana to the drugs that are already legally available for adults, such as tobacco and alcohol. Our working group has focused on how to best protect the health and well-being of children and adolescents (especially those youth who are most at-risk) if marijuana were to be legalized, taxed and regulated for adults.
In October 2013, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom announced the formation of the Blue Ribbon Commission (BRC) on Marijuana Policy. Over the past 18 months, members of the Commission have been discussing, researching and analyzing the myriad policy issues facing California as it considers legalizing, taxing, and regulating marijuana.
This report to the California Society of Addiction Medicine (CSAM) discusses CSAM’s Youth First initiative, which aims to reduce the harm to young Californians from marijuana use, from ineffective and punitive regulation, and to address the serious treatment needs of those adolescents who become harmfully involved with marijuana
Like many parents, when my kids entered high school, I wished “the drug thing” would magically disappear and that my kids would simply abstain. Yet as a long-time researcher supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and as a realistic parent, I knew this wish to be a fantasy
The challenge facing policymakers and public health advocates is reducing the harms of an ineffective, costly, and discriminatory “war on drugs’ while preventing another public health catastrophe similar to tobacco use, which kills six million people worldwide each year
This policy statement is an update of the American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement “Legalization of Marijuana: Potential Impact on Youth,” published in 2004
This paper explores user perceptions and practices in contrasting legal-policy milieux-Amsterdam (de-facto decriminalization) and San Francisco (de jour criminalization) on four policy issues: sources of cannabis and separation of markets for it and other drugs; user perceptions of effects of price on consumption; effects of potency on consumption; and perceived risk of arrest and accessibility of cannabis
Blue Ribbon Commission
