Incarceration is a crucial part of the scholarly analysis of crime, but what happens inside penal institutions largely …

-care utilization, employment and crime for patients who enter outpatient treatment for cannabis use disorder. Confounding due to … treatment and increasing crime both before and after treatment begins. Together, these findings suggest that waiting times to …

use also makes it possible that its legalization has no impact on opioid prescriptions. With claims data from a large … health insurance company in the U.S. between 2006 and 2016, we study the effect of medical marijuana legalization on opioid … prescriptions, leveraging the temporal variation in state-wise legalization. We find that, on average, opioid prescriptions …

Opioid overdose is the most common cause of accidental death in the United States and no policy response has been able … to contain this epidemic to date. We examine whether local access to medical cannabis can reduce opioid-related mortality …. Using a unique data set of medical cannabis dispensaries combined with county-level mortality data, we estimate the effect …