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A school district in southeastern Kentucky has asked businesses to guard against selling vape pens to minors after students in a nearby county got sick from using vape pens that may have contained ...
Herald-Leader investigation: Many Kentucky stores ignore law and illegally sell tobacco and vape products to minors
Vape use in school by Kentucky students has been an increasing concern, as multiple school districts including Fayette County have sued Juul and reached a settlement with the e-cigarette company ...
In 2003, 8.4% of students had consumed marijuana during the previous twelve months, and in 2014, 17% had. [13] The typical user at this age was much more likely to be male than female. There are many concerns about this increase in cannabis use, which is why new prevention strategies are being suggested, such as drug education courses. [12]
On February 20, 2020, House Bill 136 passed 65 to 30. It was the first time a medical marijuana bill has been taken up by the full House. The bill proposes restrictions on who can have medical marijuana and where it can be used, and prohibits smoking medical marijuana. It stalled in the Senate due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
State tobacco laws partly changed in 1992 under the George H.W. Bush administration when Congress enacted the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration Reorganization Act, whose Synar Amendment forced states to create their own laws to have a minimum age of eighteen to purchase tobacco or else lose funding from the Substance Abuse ...
House Bill 11, targeted at curbing vaping among youths, sets new rules for businesses that sell vape products in Kentucky. Critics have expressed dismay that the law — originally a crackdown on ...
Ultimately, e-cigarettes may play the role of a ‘gateway drug’ to smoking traditional cigarettes. [21] A new trend among youth is using e-cigarettes to vaporize liquid marijuana which can increase the potency of strain of THC increasing the potential consequences to adolescent brain development. [21]