Even a conservative estimate of a few projected economic and social costs of marijuana legalization in Rhode Island total $61.2 million for 2020, exceeding the revenues projected by pro-legalization activists by over 25 percent:
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SAM One-Pager on Marijuana's Costs to Society
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SAM One-Pager: Illegal Diversion of Marijuana: A Growing Problem
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SAM Testimony on Non-Medical Marijuana in Rhode Island (H5555)
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
SAM Working Paper on Projected Costs of Marijuana Legalization in Rhode Island (and an executive summary of that document)



- Additional workplace injuries among part-time employees
- Increases in alcohol use and abuse
- Increases in tobacco use
- More opioid abuse
- Increases in short-term/long-term recovery for marijuana use disorders
- Greater marijuana use among underage students
- Property and other economic damage from marijuana extraction lab explosions
- Controlling an expanded black market, sales to minors, and public intoxication
- Other administrative burdens of most state legalization programs, such as:
- money for drugged driving awareness campaigns;
- Increases in alcohol use and abuse
- Increases in tobacco use
- Long-term health impacts of marijuana use