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FROM Amanda Reiman
The Public Health Risks of Legal Pot California voters will decide in November whether to legalize marijuana. The Adult Use of Marijuana Act likely has enough valid signatures to be on the ballot, and if it passes as current polling suggests it will, California will join Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska in making the recreational use of pot legal. What can California learn from those states about what legalization might mean for public health and public safety?
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