Susan Estrich in dailyherald:
"Find a new vice," my doctor told me. Smoking one joint a day, he said, increases your risk of lung cancer by 8% each year. He is the top lung surgeon in town. I quit smoking cigarettes 30 years ago, but I'm still at risk because of the years I smoked. Stupidity follows you. And then there's my vice. "Vaping, too," he told me.
Five years ago, when UCLA started a cannabis research institute, the Los Angeles Times asked whether industry would be supporting the program and was told that the answer was no. Not so fast. Documents obtained by the newspaper and others released under the state open records law showed that cannabis companies and major investors in them provided financial support for the program.
That's been the federal position for decades. State laws have changed dramatically. Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia have decriminalized possession of recreational marijuana. Maybe.
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