An Alarming New Marijuana Study Raises an Important Point

This new study out of London may shift the benefits-versus-risk profile of marijuana in the wrong direction.

For all intents and purposes marijuana legalization has been a practically unstoppable force for the better part of two decades.

Marijuana's tug of war with Congress
Although we've witnessed a couple of rare defeats -- such as Florida's failed medical marijuana amendment in 2014, which missed out on a passing vote by just 2%, and Ohio's Issue 3, which was steamrolled in last month's elections -- marijuana's influence and the public's perception of the drug have grown at a remarkable pace.

Roughly 20 years ago there wasn't a single state that allowed physicians to prescribe marijuana, nor was there a legal shop for consumers to obtain marijuana for medicinal use. Today, consumers in 23 states can obtain medical marijuana prescriptions (the qualifying diseases vary from state to state), and in four states...

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