Synopsis
Professor John Marsden heads to Colorado, which voted to legalise the recreational use of cannabis in November 2012, to investigate the impact this could have on teenage drug use.
- Programme: This World
- Episode: America's Stoned Kids
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2013
- Sociology
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