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Waiting for the Opportune Moment: The Tobacco Industry and Marijuana Legalization
Author(s) -
BARRY RACHEL ANN,
HIILAMO HEIKKI,
GLANTZ STANTON A.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the milbank quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.563
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1468-0009
pISSN - 0887-378X
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0009.12055
Subject(s) - legalization , tobacco industry , context (archaeology) , criminalization , public health , business , multinational corporation , order (exchange) , political science , law , medicine , finance , paleontology , nursing , biology
In 2012, Washington State and Colorado legalized the recreational use of marijuana, and Uruguay, beginning in 2014, will become the first country to legalize the sale and distribution of marijuana. The challenge facing policymakers and public health advocates is reducing the harms of an ineffective, costly, and discriminatory "war on drugs" while preventing another public health catastrophe similar to tobacco use, which kills 6 million people worldwide each year.