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Is the Marijuana Industry Just Like Big Tobacco in the 1950s? – Ex-Public Health Commissioner Sounds a Public Health Alarm

In summary, this doctor foresees public health calamity looming as cash-hungry cannabis commodifies previously safeguarded cognitive territories through influences impossible walking back once normalized, however convincing initial free market arguments. Just witness opioid tragedies. Hence the doctor advocates regulating cannabis under tobacco rather than alcohol policy to place health before wealth.

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