Thirty-six states have legalized medical marijuana and 14 states have legalized the use of marijuana for recreational … purposes. In this paper, we review the literature on the public health consequences of legalizing marijuana, focusing on … the outcomes considered are: youth marijuana use, alcohol consumption, the abuse of prescription opioids, traffic …

We study the effect of state recreational marijuana laws (RMLs) on workers' compensation (WC) benefit receipt among …

Despite nearly 70 percent of the American public supporting legalization of recreational marijuana, opponents argue … that increased marijuana use may diminish motivation, impede cognitive function, and harm health, each of which could … adversely affect adults' economic wellbeing. This study is the first to explore the impacts of recreational marijuana laws (RMLs …

Recent studies have concluded that state laws legalizing medical marijuana can reduce deaths from opioid overdoses …. Using data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, a survey uniquely suited to assessing drug misuse, we examine … the relationship between recreational marijuana laws (RMLs) and the use of opioids. Standard difference-in-differences (DD …

The median United States voter supports the legalization of marijuana, at least in part due to a desire to increase …. Consumers bear 44 percent of the additional retail tax burden. Finally, we find evidence that consumer demand for marijuana is …

adult marijuana, alcohol, and hard drug use. We employed a restricted-access version of the National Survey on Drug Use and … on hard drug use in either age group. Taken together, MML implementation increases marijuana use mainly among those over …21 states and the District of Columbia currently have laws that permit marijuana use for medical purposes, often termed …

homicide rate in the United States. The results document that increases in enforcement of drug and alcohol prohibition have … penalty -- does not alter the conclusion that drug and alcohol prohibition have substantially raised the homicide rate in the …

Over the last two decades there has been considerable movement at the state-level to legalize marijuana, initially for … developed in our replication and extension of early research. These results indicate that legal medical marijuana, particularly … marijuana, while less reliable, also suggest that retail sales through dispensaries are associated with greater death rates …

We examine the effects of must-access prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) and recent regulations limiting the …