re: First Comprehensive Study about CO Legalization Released

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The High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program (HIDTA) is a drug-prohibition enforcement program run by the United States Office of National Drug Control Policy.

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I would only note that these figures are coming from an entity that is forbidden by law from producing anything that might paint legalization in a positive light. LINK

EDIT: This is some knee-slappingly hilarious stuff. In the span of a few pages, they knit together that awful Northwestern brain voxel study (complete with fraudulent scare quote), Maureen Dowd's bad trip, and some 2012 predictions about youth marijuana use that have already been disproven. Followed by a whole chapter on "marijuana-related" ER admissions, which is a statistical favorite among the prohibitionist set because all it means is that someone admitted for any reason (say, for a broken bone or a URI) either tested positive for weed or admitted to being a user to their doctor. DEMON. WEED.