Legal Marijuana: What the First Official Report Says

As a part of its marijuana legalization initiative passed in 2012, I-502, Washington state is required to issue periodic reports on how its ‘experiment’ with cannabis is going. Those reports, put together by the Washington State Institute for Public Policy — a think tank based in the state capital of Olympia — are to be released in 2015, 2017, 2022, and 2032, according to the Brookings Institute.

Well, 2015 is upon us, and with that, the first official report from the WSIPP on Washington’s legal marijuana law. The issue is that it doesn’t really gives us much of a gauge on whether it’s been a success or not, stating, almost right off the bat: “This report does not contain findings on whether I-502 has had any effects on outcomes. Effects of the law will not be detectable until several years after implementation. The next required report, due September...

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