We use retail scanner data on purchases of high calorie food to study the link between recreational marijuana laws (RMLs) and consumption of high calorie food. To do this we exploit differences in the timing of introduction of marijuana laws among states and find that they are complements....

We use retail scanner data on purchases of alcoholic beverages across US counties for 2006-2015to study the link between medical marijuana laws (MMLs) and alcohol consumption. To do thiswe first exploit differences in the timing of marijuana laws among states and find that they aresubstitutes....