CEO Dr. Jonathan Baktari said that gives the state the 29
th highest rate of use amongst adults. He says judging by results in other states that number would rise should Louisiana legalize weed.
“You definitely see an increased usage I think because some of the stigma of marijuana use is removed, along with increased access,” said Baktari.
Legislation is up for consideration this year that would put statewide legalization up to a vote of the people.
But Baktari said there is no clear correlation between legalization and increased youth usage of pot. He says of the 16 states with legal weed eight saw youth use increase, eight saw it decrease.
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Tuesday is 4/20, which is just a date for many, but for the growing and increasingly mainstreamed cannabis culture, is something akin to a national holiday.
Born of teenage stoner lore, 4:20 p.m. was allegedly the weekly meeting time for a group of five California high school students nicknamed the Waldos, who in 1971 would gather to smoke pot and search for the holy grail of weed â a flourishing crop supposedly left untended in the forest.
While alternate origin theories abound, former San Rafael High School students Steve Capper, Mark Gravich, Larry Schwartz, Jeff Noel and Dave Reddix have told their story in multiple reports since the 420 term first surfaced in High Times magazine in 1991. Somehow it stuck, and the five have been anointed grandfathers of the international phenomenon.
Weed by the numbers as 420, the unofficial high holiday, turns 50
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