New research points to lessons from Dutch cannabis system

Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 09:00 in Psychology & Sociology

The Netherlands’s system of quasi-legal retail marijuana sales – steadily evolving since 1976 – may have modestly increased the number of marijuana users, but does not seem to have intensified their use of marijuana or the likelihood that they will move on to harder drugs, according to a University of California, Berkeley, study just published in the journal Addiction.

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