Using state-level data for the period 1990 through 2007, we estimate the effect of legalizing medical marijuana on … suicide rates. Our results suggest that the passage of a medical marijuana law is associated with an almost 5 percent … percent reduction in the suicide rate of 30- through 39-year-old males. Estimates of the relationship between legalization and …

and legalization. While introducing a legal market reduces the profits of illegal providers, it increases cannabis … proposed policy mix can control the increase in cannabis consumption post-legalization and throttle the illegal market. The …We model consumer choices for cannabis in a risky environment and determine the supply of cannabis under prohibition …

whether marijuana should be legalized. There are two important avenues through which legalization could impact use …: legalization would make marijuana easier to get, and it would remove the stigma (and cost) associated with illegal behavior … alone. Among illicit drugs marijuana is the most commonly used, where the US government spends upwards of $7.7 billion per …

While the health risks associated with smoking are well known, the impact on income distributions is not. This paper … extends the literature by examining the distributional effects of a behavioral choice, in this case smoking, on net marginal … NMSSTR than nonsmokers. In addition, as low-earnings workers have a higher smoking prevalence than high-earnings workers …

nicotine per cigarette. Our study makes two important contributions. First, as smoking more intensively a given cigarette is … where agents can also adjust their intensity of smoking and we show that the previous empirical results suffer from severe …

This paper investigates how legal cannabis access affects student performance. Identification comes from an exceptional … policy introduced in the city of Maastricht in the Netherlands that discriminated access via licensed cannabis shops based on … grades of local students enrolled at Maastricht University before and during the partial cannabis prohibition. We find that …

This paper investigates how legal cannabis access affects student performance. Identification comes from an exceptional … Maastricht University before and during the partial cannabis prohibition. We find that the academic performance of students who … are no longer legally permitted to buy cannabis increases substantially. Grade improvements are driven by younger students …

This paper investigates how legal cannabis access affects student performance. Identification comes from an exceptional … Maastricht University before and during the partial cannabis prohibition. We find that the academic performance of students who … are no longer legally permitted to buy cannabis increases substantially. Grade improvements are driven by younger students …

early marijuana use (at age 14 or younger) and young people's educational outcomes. We find evidence that early marijuana … in families with a history of welfare receipt. The relationships between marijuana use and both high school completion … and achieving a university entrance score appear to stem from selectivity into the use of marijuana. In contrast, early …

Recreational cannabis markets possibly increase labor demand through investments in facilities for growing, processing …, and retail sales of cannabis, as well as through other industries such as manufacturing, leisure, and hospitality. However …, this increase in labor demand may vary substantially across counties within a state as most states with legal recreational …