A Public Health Framework for Legalized Retail Marijuana Based on the US Experience: Avoiding a New Tobacco Industry

Rachel Ann Barry; Stanton Glantz

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002131

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A Public Health Framework for Legalized Retail Marijuana Based on the US Experience: Avoiding a New Tobacco Industry

Rachel Ann Barry,

Affiliation Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education and Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Stanton Glantz

* E-mail: glantz@medicine.ucsf.edu

Affiliations Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education and Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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A Public Health Framework for Legalized Retail Marijuana Based on the US Experience: Avoiding a New Tobacco Industry

Rachel Ann Barry,
Stanton Glantz

Published: September 27, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002131

About the Authors

Rachel Ann Barry

Affiliation Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education and Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Stanton Glantz

* E-mail: glantz@medicine.ucsf.edu

Affiliations Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education and Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RAB SG. Data curation: SG. Funding acquisition: SG. Investigation: RAB. Methodology: RAB SG. Project administration: SG. Resources: SG. Supervision: SG. Visualization: RAB SG. Writing – original draft: RAB. Writing – review & editing: RAB SG.

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