Cenk Uygur
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Common Anti-Weed Argument Debunked
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January 2, 2017
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6:15Now PlayingA recently released study indicates that marijuana legalization has NOT lead to additional traffic related deaths. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks debunk a common antimarijuana legalization myth. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
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"Legalization of medical marijuana is not linked with increased traffic fatalities, a new study finds. In some states, in fact, the number of people killed in traffic accidents dropped after medical marijuana laws were enacted.
“Instead of seeing an increase in fatalities, we saw a reduction, which was totally unexpected,” said Julian Santaella-Tenorio, the study’s lead author and a doctoral student at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in New York City.
Since 1996, 28 states have legalized marijuana for medical use.
Deaths dropped 11 percent on average in states that legalized medical marijuana, researchers discovered after analyzing 1.2 million traffic fatalities nationwide from 1985 through 2014."*
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