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More Americans Think Marijuana Is Harmless Than Ever Before

Submitted by Marijuana News on Tue, 09/06/2016 - 08:45

​More Americans than ever believe that marijuana poses little to no risk to their health - just as scientists are discovering it's more dangerous than they previously believed, a report said.

From 2002-2014, the number of Americans who think that smoking marijuana once or twice a week poses a 'great risk' dropped from one half to one third, according to an article in Lancet Psychiatry.

That runs counter to scientific research about pot, said Dr Wilson Compton, lead author of the study, which looked at the views of more than 500,000 US adults.

'If anything, science has shown an increasing risk that we weren't as aware of years ago,' said Compton, deputy director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Feeling green: More Americans than ever believe that marijuana poses little or no risk of harm - but the danger is real, say scientists (pictured: cannabis dispensary...

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