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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		A public health perspective on efforts to legalize marijuana
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:00:58
	Publish Date:		2016-11-06 18:00:00
	Description:		Will marijuana become a "new version" of cigarettes? Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, says public health experts need to be cautious about the negative effects of cannabis. "The historical situation where tobacco was the gateway to marijuana where kids started with tobacco and then graduated to marijuana, that situation’s now totally reversed. Kids think marijuana is harmless and even good for you. They start with marijuana and then move on to tobacco. So the marijuana and tobacco epidemics are really inextricably tied to each other." Glantz suggests that a better way to approach legalization of marijuana would be to focus on minimizing cannabis use and prioritizing public health over commercial interests and tax revenue generation.
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