Federal marijuana prohibition “makes it even more difficult” to implement unified health and safety policies across state markets, a member of a leading prohibitionist organization says.
During a webinar on cannabis policy issues on Wednesday, staff with the non-profit Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) discussed a variety of regulatory concerns amid the state reform movement—but often framed them in ways that suggested legalization is inevitable and also pointed to specific regulations within legal frameworks that they preferred.
While CADCA as a national institution has opposed congressional bills to legalize marijuana and free up banks to work with state-licensed cannabis businesses, the webinar offered a more nuanced perspective, with staff focused on youth prevention departing from a strict prohibition perspective and signaling that it may ultimately be more effective to achieve certain key goals by working within legalization models to affect change.
Lesley Gabel, who serves on CADCA’s Coalition Development Support Team (CDS), said for example that it would be “great” if there were universal warning symbols on cannabis products that could be identified across the patchwork of state cannabis markets to ensure that consumers, particularly youth, are aware of the THC content.
But she said that’s “hard because it’s
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