Experts Criticize Flavored Cannabis Marketing Targeting Teens, Young Adults

People visit the Housing Works Cannabis Company during the opening of the first legal cannabis dispensary in New York City on December 29, 2022. - The first cannabis shop opened where adults age 21 and over will legally be able to buy recreational marijuana. (Photo by KENA BETANCUR / AFP) Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images

Experts and public health advocates are voicing concerns about the rise in flavored cannabis products that appear to be marketed toward teenagers and young adults.

The concerns come as New York, which legalized recreational marijuana—also known as cannabis—in March 2021, has opened more legal outlets for the recreational use of the psychoactive drug in recent months.