Dr. Carl Hart and Dr. Drew Pinsky debate whether marijuana use leads to addiction to other drugs.
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Although buying and consuming marijuana inside Catalonia’s cannabis clubs is legal, police say these associations are now being used as fronts by drug mafias, transforming this part of Spain into the centre of Europe’s illicit cannabis trade.
Josh will sift through the propaganda, fear and greed encompassing medical marijuana. Recently featured on CNN, Josh and his brothers developed a non-psychotropic strain of marijuana which is drastically reducing seizures for many pediatric epilepsy patients in Colorado.
In 2012, Colorado legalized cannabis and kickstarted a multibillion dollar industry with every product imaginable -- brownies, gummy bears, granola bars, even lube! But to say that we’ve “legalized cannabis” is mistaken -- we’ve commercialized THC.
Due to recent changes in state laws, a majority of the US population now has legal access to cannabis. Los Angeles is the largest legal cannabis market in the world.
Michael Pollan presented his lecture as the 2002-2003 Avenali Chair in the Humanities at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley.