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Marijuana legalization was a mistake. Highly-concentrated pot is destroying my son's life.

Oct 17, 2021 View Original Article
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    -2% Center

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  • Policy Leaning

    74% Very Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -5% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : And then legalized marijuana came, and everything changed.
50% : By his freshman year, I realized he was using marijuana.
47% : From 2014 to 2018, marijuana was present in nearly one-third of teen suicides.
43% : Marijuana, which has been linked to mental illness and psychosis in teens and young adults, slowly takes away your humanity.
43% : This closes a loophole that could be exploited to stock up on marijuana concentrates, which they sell to their younger friends.
37% : It's a baby step, but it's significant that the state that pioneered marijuana legalization is finally recognizing there are harmful consequences.
35% : More and more, marijuana is implicated in teen suicides.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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