While at least a dozen state legislatures are considering bills to allow the consumption of marijuana for medicinal … purposes, the federal government has recently intensified its efforts to close medical marijuana dispensaries. Federal … officials contend that the legalization of medical marijuana encourages teenagers to use marijuana and have targeted …

Washington State that significantly lowered such costs. The enforcement visits by the cannabis board officials to marijuana firms …. Marijuana is considered illegal by the Federal law resulting in high financial access costs. I exploit a unique experiment by … marijuana sales. The paper highlight the economic value of government certification and finance in the formalization of a shadow …

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 …