The 1988 election approving Proposition 99 was over five years old, and the strong public support for those programs, as reflected in the vote, was no longer as obvious as it had been when AB 75 had passed in 1989
Many of these products are smuggled from China, with one source estimating that Chinese counterfeiters produce 400 billion cigarettes per year to meet international demand.[12] These counterfeit cigarettes are dangerous products, and do not adhere to quality control standards found in cigarettes from authentic brands
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Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States, killing more than 480,000 Americans a year
Finally, while capping THC levels offers a promising policy tool for limiting consumption of high-potency cannabis products, consideration must also be given to newly emerging products that contain natural or synthetic THC isomers such as delta-8 or delta-10 THC, or THC analogues such as THC-O-acetate, which is created from hemp, a plant that comes from the same family as cannabis but has been federally legal to produce since the 2018 Farm Bill
The economic justice group Equity and Transformation is holding a series of workshops called Chronic Conversations. Some people kind of have an idea what cannabis is, said Richard Wallace of Equity and Transformation