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What Colorado and other states tell us about how marijuana's big election day will affect health

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Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 11/10/2016 - 10:00

After November 8, 20% of Americans now live in states that have voted to allow recreational marijuana use. 

Massachusetts, Maine, Nevada, and California have now joined Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and the District of Columbia in voting for initiatives that make it legal for adults to consume cannabis.  And several states joined the 25 that already allow for medical use of marijuana — the most notable addition being Florida, with a broad medical marijuana law that will allow doctors to recommend cannabis for a wide variety of conditions.

Critics of legalization claim that legalization is bad for public health. "When states legalize recreational marijuana, fatalities increase and the lives of children and teenagers are put at stake," Kurt Isaacson, president and CEO of Spectrum Health Systems, a substance abuse and mental health treatment provider, recently wrote in an opinion piece for Stat News. 

But the data on how...

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