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The opening of medical marijuana dispensaries in the suburbs has some substance abuse prevention experts worried.
Will teens get hold of marijuana meant for medical use and abuse it?
Will the positive message about the drug's benefits for the chronically ill change perceptions about its risks for others?
Experts such as Dr. David Lott, medical director of addiction services at Linden Oaks Behavioral Health in Naperville, think it very well could.
"The more you think (marijuana is) dangerous, the less you're going to use," he said. "By making it more legal, it's inevitable that it's going to seem less risky because it's more available and people are talking about it more in a positive way."
Lott says what's needed to counter the effects of this "positive" message about marijuana is a stronger emphasis on prevention messages in schools and elsewhere.
Other experts, such as Kathleen Kane-Willis of the Illinois Consortium on...
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