Legal marijuana : perspectives on public benefits, risks and policy approaches
2020
eBook
Abstract: This collection of essays explains the benefits and concerns, the policies and actions, and the future of the controversial issue - marijuana legalization.
Main title:
Legal marijuana : perspectives on public benefits, risks and policy approaches / edited by Joaquin Jay Gonzalez III and Mickey P. McGee.
Author:
Gonzalez, Joaquin Jay, III, editorMcGee, Mickey P., 1949-, editorCredo Reference (Firm), distributor
Edition:
[Enhanced Credo edition]
Imprint:
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., [2018]Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2020.
Collation:
1 online resource (86 entries) ; digital files.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.Description based on title page of print version.
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Linking notes:
Print version: xi, 271 pages
Contents:
Legalized pot pushes Colorado Revenue Department into new territory / John Sepulvado -- Local pot laws conflict with national policies worldwide / Donald F. Kettl -- A brief history of cannabis policy legislation / Dereck Glover and Mickey McGee -- Marijuana research report series: excerpt / National Institute On Drug Abuse -- Smoked marijuana is not medicine / U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency -- The legalization lobby / U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency -- FDA and marijuana: questions and answers / U.S. Food and Drug Administration -- The possibilities of pot / William Smith -- Seniors increasingly getting high, study shows / Carmen Heredia Rodriguez -- Studies show benefits, downsides of recreational marijuana / Ted Yoakum -- Medical marijuana emerges from the shadows / Kevin Harper -- Options and issues regarding marijuana legalization in Vermont / Beau Kilmer -- Where will legal marijuana industry stash its cash? / Gordon Oliver -- Why legal marijuana businesses are still cash-only / Sophie Quinton -- For this pot guy, states are his biggest customers / J.B. Wogan -- Firm brings cannabis to the forefront / Douglas Levy -- Business and citizen thoughts on legalized marijuana / Samira J. Perry, Mickey P. Mcgee -- As states OK medical marijuana laws, doctors struggle with knowledge gap -- Shefali luthra -- Could legalizing pot diminish California's gains against smoking? / Anna Gorman -- As marijuana laws relax, doctors say pregnant women shouldn't partake / Sarah Varney -- Marijuana's lasting effects on the brain / Nora D. Volkow -- The public health implications of the legalization of recreational cannabis / Juliet Akhigbe, et al. -- Marijuana legalization in two states: a man-made public health disaster? / Paula Gordon -- Link between medical marijuana and fewer opioid deaths is more complex / Rosalie Liccardo Pacula -- Teaching teens the perils of pot as marketplace grows / Anna Gorman -- Challenging marijuana myths / Nora D. Volkow -- Drugs in the public workplace: the HR challenge / Joe Jarret -- Marijuana at city hall / William Kirchhoff and Stephen Zimney -- VA clears the air on talking to patients about marijuana use / Michelle Andrews -- Marijuana use and PTSD among veterans / Marcel O. Bonn-Miller and Glenna S. Rousseau -- Opponents of legalized marijuana take aim at stoned driving / Andy Metzger -- Why the latest news on marijuana and car crashes has some experts skeptical / Daniel C. Vock -- With pot on the ballot, states weigh how to police stoned drivers / Stephanie O'Neill and Ben Markus -- Legal marijuana means states struggle to address high driving / Sarah Breitenbach -- Uncertainties after a year of legalized marijuana / Deborah Sutton -- As the pro-pot movement gains popularity, reservations remain among locals / Dylan Woolf Harris -- Colorado's pot legalization creates challenges / Diane Raver -- Licensing medical marijuana stirs up trouble for states / Rebecca Beitsch -- Legal cultivation challenges and California / Patrick Murphy, Henry Mccann, and Van Bustic -- The adult-use marijuana act: issues and impacts / Mickey P. Mcgee -- Managing marijuana: the role of data-driven regulation / Stephen Goldsmith -- Medical marijuana: do states know how to regulate it? / Dylan Scott -- Managing medical marijuana / William Kirchhoff -- Marijuana management: what's happening now / Michele Frisby -- Advertising marijuana / Seth Poe and Alan R. Roper -- A framework for regulating legal marijuana / Patrick Murphy and John Carnevale -- Medical marijuana law enforcement: lessons from district attorneys / Gary A. Craft and Mickey P. McGee -- Medical marijuana law enforcement: lessons from police chiefs / Gary A. Craft and Mickey P. McGee -- A tale of two memos / Joaquin Jay Gonzalez III -- Berkeley's medical and recreational cannabis policy / Jim Hynes -- Cloud of uncertainty over legalized pot as feds end Obama-era accommodation / Anna Gorman and Phil Galewitz -- Law, legalization and the failed war on drugs / David Schultz -
Access restrictions:
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.
ISBN:
9781787857780 (electronic version)9781476673097 (softcover ; alk. paper)1476673098 (softcover ; alk. paper)
Dewey class:
362.2955610973
LC class:
HV5822.M3
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
501504
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