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|Articles|February 16, 2016
SPECIAL REPORT: GENERATION WEED
February’s Special Report focuses on the troubling trend to legalize and decriminalize recreational and medical marijuana and the risks to children and adolescents from the marketing and media hype surrounding “weed.”
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