“This is not your fathers Oldsmobile”
Marijuana edition…
While I support marijuana legalization and decarceration, generally, for minor drug offenses, the big thing that the legalized pot movement is lacking is federal requirements on dosage, concentration, toxicity and labeling.
Most critically for parents of teenagers and young adults who inevitably try this stuff, when you dig in, you will find that pot has gone from relatively mild in THC concentrations to something that is far different from what the drug used to be even twenty years ago.
And as the concentrations have gone up, so have the issues related to it. That is what the stats in the article linked below show - and even without debating correlation and causation, the lack of statistical noise in the data is scary.
The FDA has oversight for cigarettes and is developing a framework to methodically take nicotine levels down.
My two cents is that they should have the same responsibility for marijuana.
There are some important and valuable medical and therapeutic uses for marijuana. But without the ability to have guardrails on dosing, toxicity, and no support from well designed RCTs, the trend below will create far more harm than good.
wsj.com/articles/cannabis-is…