Kevin Sabet, a former White House drug policy adviser who worked with three presidents, said the impact of legal marijuana had been disastrous. “We expected negative consequences to pile up over a 20 to 30-year time span,” he said. “Now, in ten years, we’re seeing what we thought we were going to see in two or three decades.”
Last year a state report found that 10 per cent of adults were using cannabis daily or near-daily, a “significant increase” from 2014. Heavy use is most common among younger smokers, a cohort of users galvanised by celebrity proponents of the drug, including the rappers Snoop Dogg and Jay-Z, the boxer Mike Tyson and the actor Seth Rogen. Of those aged 18 to 25, 16 per cent reported using cannabis daily or near-daily.
Sabet said: “It shows that if you sanction something and commercialise it and promote it, you’re going to see an explosion of use.”
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