A common objection to the prospect of making marijuana legal is that use would immediately skyrocket and we’d become a nation of pot-addled zombies. After all, the thinking goes, once it’s legal, all the people who have refrained from breaking the law will rush to the new marijuana stores and get hooked.
NORML’s Paul Armentano recently released a review of the available literature on the topic and found no evidence to support that view. In fact, according to study after study of societal effects of marijuana law changes, the most common conclusion is that marijuana laws (whether strict or lax) simply have no effect on use.
Here’s the report: NORML_Real_World_Ramifications_Legalization (PDF)
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