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Cannabis Industry Targeting Kids??

Public policymakers attempt to keep up with rapidly-evolving industry

  • For decades, the tobacco industry has come under fire for marketing harmful nicotine products to children.
  • Now, similar concerns are being raised about the cannabis industry.
  • As cannabis dispensaries pop up across America, customers can find flavored products such as “mad mango,” “loud lemon,” and “peach dream,” which critics say could entice children.
  • “If you go through a cannabis dispensary right now,” Katherine Keyes, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University said, “it’s almost absurd how youth-orientated a lot of the packing and the products are.”
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