Long Island navigates the growing pains of legal marijuana

A Newsday article featured R. Lorraine Collins about how Long Island is navigating the growing pains of legal cannabis. Delaying cannabis use is important because the key phases of brain development take place before age 25, and marijuana use during that time can affect how young people learn, with long-term implications, Collins said. Marijuana use is highest among people in their late teens to early 20s, and that is “actually the worst time to disrupt the development of your brain,” Collins said.