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- Increase Youth Use and Harms to Children
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/add.15895
2. Increases Road Fatalities
Drugged driving surpassed drunk driving as the cause of fatalities in motor vehicle crashes. The #1 drug in those crashes is marijuana- page 9 and 10 https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/56125
In Colorado Traffic deaths with drivers who test positive for marijuana doubled from 2013 to 2020. – https://www.thenmi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/RMHIDTA-Marijuana-Report-2021.pdf
The body count will continue to climb if there is Federal legalization as one study estimates an additional 6,800 traffic fatalities per year. – https://thecrimereport.org/2020/07/22/recreational-pot-linked-to-rise-in-traffic-deaths/
3. Increases Crime and Violence
https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.19101008
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2775255
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6461328/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07418825.2019.1567807
4. Increases The Black Market
5. Increases Drug Use and Overdoses, Suicides, and Mental Illness.
Early initiation of marijuana is a dominant predictor of Opioid Use Disorder. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376871620300041
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35901795/
6. Higher potency=more psychosis and more cannabis use disorder

1. Circumstances, Toxicology, and Injury location 2. Select the year slide from 2014 to present 3. Age (dropbox): check only 10-14 and/or 15-18.


