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http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/04/news/la-heb-proposition-19-health-20100803
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But if pot is made legal, what would that mean for public health in the Golden State? Nothing good, says Keith Humphreys, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at the Stanford School of Medicine.
Humphreys, a clinical psychologist who recently spent a year in the Obama administration's Office of National Drug Control Policy as a senior policy advisor, says the health effects of Proposition 19 are being overlooked by the 52% of Californians who supported the measure in a recent poll. In a podcast available on the Stanford website, he says his No. 1 fear is that it would create a lucrative product line for tobacco companies or create an industry that would stand "shoulder to shoulder with them lobbying against every anti-smoking restriction and expansion of public health and every taxation initiative."
Cigarettes still kill 400,000 people each year despite decades of regulation and anti-smoking campaigns, Humphreys said. But there's reason to fear that Proposition 19 could make things worse. In European countries like the Netherlands, tobacco and marijuana are often smoked together and the combination is "both more addictive and more cancer-producing than either of those separately," he said.
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But if pot is made legal, what would that mean for public health in the Golden State? Nothing good, says Keith Humphreys, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at the Stanford School of Medicine.
Humphreys, a clinical psychologist who recently spent a year in the Obama administration's Office of National Drug Control Policy as a senior policy advisor, says the health effects of Proposition 19 are being overlooked by the 52% of Californians who supported the measure in a recent poll. In a podcast available on the Stanford website, he says his No. 1 fear is that it would create a lucrative product line for tobacco companies or create an industry that would stand "shoulder to shoulder with them lobbying against every anti-smoking restriction and expansion of public health and every taxation initiative."
Cigarettes still kill 400,000 people each year despite decades of regulation and anti-smoking campaigns, Humphreys said. But there's reason to fear that Proposition 19 could make things worse. In European countries like the Netherlands, tobacco and marijuana are often smoked together and the combination is "both more addictive and more cancer-producing than either of those separately," he said.
