In November 2012, Washington and Colorado voted to make recreational use of marijuana legal for those 21 and older. Another 16 states have passed measures that provide some level of decriminalization for marijuana, often through medical use clauses. When marijuana is readily available to adults, many worry about the drug becoming more accessible to kids. Now, police are warning that marijuana is being disguised in kid-friendly candy.
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Shire Specialty Pharmaceuticals introduced Adderall in 2001, and by the end of a decade millions of American children were taking it to relieve symptoms of Attention Deficit Disorder. In late 2011, when the drug was temporarily in short supply, parents and teachers were challenged by how incontrollable children had become without their medications, and parents were going to heroic lengths to obtain Adderall. The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry called the shortage “devastating.”