As recreational marijuana laws (RML) expanded marijuana access over the last decade, still very little is known about … the impact of RML on two costly social behaviors that may arise as a consequence of marijuana consumption: unhealthy …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

We examine the relationship between marijuana use and non-drug related crime using data on arrests from the Arrestee … with arrests but not reported crime, suggesting that marijuana use may just influence the likelihood of getting caught …

Over the last few years, marijuana has become legally available for recreational use to roughly a quarter of Americans … the liberalization of marijuana policy. Indeed, the fraction of fatal accidents in which at least one driver tested … which legalized marijuana in 2014, these increases were 92 percent and 28 percent, respectively. However, identifying a …

We examine the spillover effects of recreational marijuana legalization (RML) in Colorado and Washington on neighboring … states. We find that RML causes a sharp increase in marijuana possession arrests in border counties of neighboring states … relative to non-border counties in these states. RML has no impact on juvenile marijuana possession arrests but is rather fully …

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 …