From the Los Angeles Times
"More than 22 million Americans use some form of marijuana each month, and it’s now approved for medicinal or recreational use in 28 states plus the District of Columbia. Nationwide, legal sales of the drug reached an estimated $7.1 billion last year.
Yet for all its ubiquity, a comprehensive new report says the precise health effects of marijuana on those who use it remain something of a mystery — and the federal government continues to erect major barriers to research that would provide much-needed answers.
There is “substantial evidence” that women who use marijuana during pregnancy are more likely to give birth to smaller babies who face a range of early disadvantages. The report also detailed strong evidence that long-term pot-smoking is linked to worsened respiratory symptoms and more frequent episodes of chronic bronchitis. And it found solid research findings of an overlap between frequent users of marijuana and those who develop schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders, though it’s not clear whether one causes the other."
22 million American use pot and the authorities don't know its effects?
The same anti-smoking zealots in government and the private sector who vigorously attack electronic cigarettes (which contain no tobacco) and want to ban, overtax and/or over-regulate e-cigs do nothing and say nothing about ANY of the possible dangers and health risks of stinky marijuana. They are hypocrites. Pot hypocrites.
