Not your grandma's weed: Why potency limits must be part of any push to legalize cannabis

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : ►Marijuana has enjoyed a reputation of being harmless.
52% : No drug has undergone such a transformation in the court of public opinion and state legislatures as marijuana.
51% : Legislators on the state and federal levels have an opportunity to make better laws about marijuana than they ever had with tobacco products.
48% : A new study finds chocolate appears to interfere with the ability to measure THC, the high-inducing chemical in marijuana.
47% : At present, marijuana is generally regulated by weight, not potency.
46% : There is no standard measure for a serving of marijuana as there is for a serving of alcohol.
44% : We still do not know the risks of marijuana, though physicians are starting to get a much clearer picture.
42% : Editorials on cannabis legalizationMarijuana's reputation as "harmless" needs to confront the harmful realities of its increased potency.
40% : Many assume that marijuana is not addictive like drugs that have been culturally and morally coded as "bad" or "dangerous," such as heroin or methamphetamine.
39% : Another View: Legalizing marijuana?

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