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9:00 - 10:30 AM
PANEL: Marijuana legalization: local, state, federal, and global perspectives

Moderator:  Steve Heilig, MPH

Tomás J. Aragón MD, DrPH

Matt Willis, MD, MPH

David Pating, MD

Seth Ammerman, MD, FAAP, FSAHM, DABAM

 
Session Description:

This will be a 90-minute, four-speaker panel featuring clinicians and public health authorities detailing many relevant aspects of the legalization of marijuana, especially in California, with some lessons and pointers for responding to major concerns.

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Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the history, science base, impetus and major developments concerning cannabis legalization in California

  • Describe the major positive and negative impacts of legalization, in terms of clinical, public health, and financial impacts

  • Understand some ongoing and planned optimal responses from public health and medical authorities to the expected and observed negative impacts of legalization at the state and local levels

  • Describe relative risk and benefits of cannabis use

  • Identify conditions in which cannabis use is contraindicated

  • Develop recommendations for ‘moderate use’ of cannabis