from no penalties at all, civil fines, drug education, or drug treatment. No state has legalized cannabis thus far. It remains a US federally-controlled substance, which makes possession and distribution illegal. However, at the time of this writing, 26 states in the US have passed either medical cannabis laws, cannabis decriminalization laws, or both. See Table 1. A major concern of this commentary is that both the medicinal use of smoked cannabis plant and legalization/decriminalization…
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