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 studied the effect of marijuana liberalization policies on perinatal health with a multiperiod difference …-in-differences estimator that exploited variation in effective dates of medical marijuana laws (MML) and recreational marijuana laws (RML). We … found that the proportion of maternal hospitalizations with marijuana use disorder increased by 23% (0.3 percentage points …

Public health experts caution that legalization of recreational marijuana may normalize smoking and undermine the … decades-long achievements of tobacco control policy. However, very little is known about the impact of recreational marijuana …

medical marijuana laws (MML) and recreational marijuana use by closely examining the importance of policy dimensions … simple dichotomous indicators are generally not associated with marijuana use, specific dimensions of MMLs, namely home … cultivation and legal dispensaries, are positively associated with marijuana use in each data set. Moreover, these same dimensions …

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 … the relationship between recreational marijuana laws (RMLs) and the use of opioids. Standard difference-in-differences (DD …, Percocet, and Vicodin. Although DD regression estimates provide evidence that state laws legalizing recreational marijuana can …

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 …

of marijuana for medicinal purposes, the federal government is intensifying its efforts to close medical marijuana … dispensaries. Federal officials contend that the legalization of medical marijuana encourages teenagers to use marijuana and have … the relationship between medical marijuana laws and marijuana use. Our results are not consistent with the hypothesis that …

21 states and the District of Columbia currently have laws that permit marijuana use for medical purposes, often termed … medical marijuana laws (MMLs). We tested the effects of MMLs adopted in seven states between 2004 and 2011 on adolescent and … adult marijuana, alcohol, and hard drug use. We employed a restricted-access version of the National Survey on Drug Use and …

Evidence on cannabis legalization's effects on mental health remains scarce, despite both rapid increases in cannabis … use and an ongoing mental health crisis in the United States. We use granular geographic data to estimate medical cannabis … that medical cannabis availability had negative effects on mental health for the adult population overall. We also find …