Room for Debate: Did Colorado Go Too Far With Pot?

Learn to Make It Safer, but Keep It Legal

Ernest Drucker, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

As a consequence of the decades of criminalization of marijuana use we have almost no scientific basis for how it can be consumed safely.

Legalization Is Just Too Dangerous

A. Eden Evins, Center for Addiction Medicine

Companies with a profit motive can promote dependency, especially among the young, so they have a steady stream of customers.

California Has Already Shown Pot to Be Safe

Deborah Peterson Small, Drug policy reform advocate

Growers, sellers, edible manufacturers and regulators worked together to provide cannabis products while protecting public safety.

Marijuana Is Now Big Business

Kevin A. Sabet, Project SAM

A relentless marijuana lobby insists that these products are not especially attractive to children, yet continues to block controls on advertising, labeling, shape and color.

Problems Are Exaggerated in Unfair Coverage

Steve Fox, National Cannabis Industry Association

The problems associated with alcohol dwarf the problems associated with marijuana. Yet we do not see the same news coverage or question whether the industry should exist.

Shaping an Industry and a Policy Model

Joe Hodas, Dixie Elixirs and Edibles

Evolution and adaptation are happening at a speed that I don't think any other industry in history has emulated.