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A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research contradicts lawmakers who say legalizing medical marijuana encourages more teenagers to use pot. According to the study’s results, there's no indication that pot-friendly states have a higher incidence of high school students trying pot for the first time or regularly getting high.

Researchers compared data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on annual marijuana use by adolescents and found there was no significant increase in the probability that a high school student in states where medical marijuana is legal had used weed in the past 30 days compared to states where it is not.

One of the most egregious outcomes of marijuana prohibition is that many sick people cannot legally access the medicine that works best for them.

Marijuana can alleviate pain and inflammation linked to arthritis.

Washington, D.C.'s proposal, while scaled back compared to the Oregon proposal, allows for a person over 21 years old to posses up to two ounces of marijuana for personal use and grow up to six cannabis plants in their home. It also allows people to transfer up to one ounce of marijuana to another person, but not sell it.

Marijuana use can be used to treat and prevent

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e hundreds of medical-marijuana businesses, but regulation is so loose and spread over a number of agencies that nobody really knows.