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 …

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

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 …

Older adults have the highest rates of many health conditions for which medical marijuana may be effective in … this group responds to medical marijuana laws. We provide the first estimates of the effects of state medical marijuana … to medical marijuana. We use longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study to study these questions using …

The public health costs of tobacco consumption have been documented to be substantially larger than those of marijuana … use. This study is the first to investigate the impact of medical marijuana laws (MMLs) on tobacco cigarette consumption …-point increase in adult marijuana consumption, likely for both recreational and medicinal purposes. Then, using data from the NSDUH …

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 …