Are kids really more likely to get high when marijuana is legal?
In the battle over whether to legalize recreational marijuana in Massachusetts, opponents have repeated one main refrain: think of the children. The crux of their argument? That legalizing marijuana will lead more adolescents and teens to use the drug.
“Where marijuana is legal, young people are more likely to use it,” wrote Mayor Marty Walsh, Gov. Charlie Baker, and Attorney General Maura Healy in the second paragraph of their Boston Globe editorial against legalizing weed.
But are kids really more likely to get high when marijuana is legal? At this point—with only two years of recreational sales in two states and even less time elsewhere in the U.S.—it’s hard to tell. Experts say there hasn’t been enough time to seriously gather the effects of legalization across the country.
“We have two years of data on what happens when you legalize cannabis,” said Ryan Vandrey, a behavioral pharmacologist with an expertise in...
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