Cannabis Harm Reduction
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Submitted Statement of
Jillian E. Snider
Policy Director, Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
R Street Institute
Before the
Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil…
When the Biden administration recently announced that it would pardon federal cannabis possession charges and review the drug’s Schedule 1 status, it was cause for celebration among harm reduction…
Summary
In 2021, drug overdose deaths in the United States—the vast majority of which were attributable to opioids—topped 100,000, an all-time high. The overprescribing of OxyContin and…
The R Street Institute (R Street) respectfully submits comments on the proposed tobacco product standards for menthol in cigarettes and characterizing flavors in cigars. R Street is a…
Between 2010 and 2019, 42,627 U.S. veterans died of a drug overdose. In fact, military veterans are 1.5 to 2 times as likely to die of an accidental overdose than the general population. The…
If you want consistent approaches from the government to society’s many problems, then you’re likely to be disappointed. Nowhere is this clearer than in the responses to the tobacco and opioid…
I consider myself a rational person, someone who is swayed by solid data and persuasive arguments, yet every afternoon after my work is done, I jump on my three-cylinder Triumph motorcycle and take…
WASHINGTON (April 13, 2022) – In a new report, R Street Institute Senior Fellow Stacey McKenna and Research Fellow Chelsea Boyd identify and analyze common arguments voiced by opponents of cannabis…
Since California legalized medical cannabis almost three decades ago, support for relaxed laws around the Schedule I substance has spread throughout the United…
Endnotes
- “30 years”: https://www.businessinsider.com/legal-marijuana-states-2018-1
- “Americans now overwhelmingly support”: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/04/16/americans-overwhelmingly-say-marijuana-should-be-legal-for-recreational-or-medical-use/
- “legalization”: https://www.mpp.org/issues/legislation/key-marijuana-policy-reform
- “federal decriminalization”: https://www.natlawreview.com/article/federal-cannabis-reform-2022-year
- “decades past”: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26903403.
- “5 percent”: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26903403.
- “17 percent”: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-019-00983-5
- “around”: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230167
- “20 percent”: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.13886
- “illegal”: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26903403
- “legal”: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/03/was-marijuana-really-less-potent-in-the-1960s/387010
- “methodological”: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/03/was-marijuana-really-less-potent-in-the-1960s/387010/
- “limitations”: https://goodlabcolorado.com/2016/05/19/potency-testing-gc-vs-lc/
- “evidence”: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010440X13000187
- “emerging”: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1600-0447.1993.tb03408.x
- “evidence”: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/210748
- “implicates”: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5984096
- “use”: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5911228/#:~:text=Self%2Dmedication%20with%20drugs%20or,leading%20individuals%20to%20self%2Dmedicate.
- “consumption”: http://monitoringthefuture.org/data/21data/MJ/MJ_jsFigures.htm
- “studies”: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00952990.2018.1559847
- “specifically”: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11121-018-0933-2
- “examined”: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2718512
- “cannabis”: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31568933.
- “exposure”: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24507243.
- “states”: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0749379715004006
- “legal”: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24507243
- “study”: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26054783
- “climbed”: https://www.nhtsa.gov/behavioral-research/drug-and-alcohol-crash-risk-study
- “states”: https://aaafoundation.org/cannabis-use-among-drivers-in-fatal-crashes-in-washington-state-before-and-after-legalization
- “mild”: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30872375
- “moderate”: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0001457521003572?via%3Dihub
- “risk”: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0001457512002412
- “blood THC levels”: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15389588.2020.1851685
- “experiences”: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/2788264