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Now that pot is legal, California needs more drug treatment for youths – by Timmen Cermak

Weeding Out the Addicts –

July 9, 2018 – For decades, young people in California have had almost unlimited access to marijuana but virtually no access to affordable drug treatment. When voters legalized recreational pot in 2016, they also provided the resources for California to create an effective system of youth drug prevention and treatment. That’s why the California Society of Addiction Medicine is sponsoring Senate Bill 275 to ensure that hundreds of millions of dollars in state money delivers quality services … That’s why as a member of the Blue Ribbon Commission that helped shape Proposition 64 and now the state Cannabis Advisory Committee that is helping to implement it, I have worked alongside other treatment experts to advance a vision for prevention and treatment that works.

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