In this paper we use longitudinal data on Swiss adolescents to nvestigate the impact of cannabis use on short … indicate that high school students who smoke cannabis skip on additional half day of school per month and are 15-20% more …

Evidence on cannabis legalization's effects on mental health remains scarce, despite both rapid increases in cannabis … use and an ongoing mental health crisis in the United States. We use granular geographic data to estimate medical cannabis … that medical cannabis availability had negative effects on mental health for the adult population overall. We also find …

Using data on banking transactions, we analyze how people changed their spending behaviour when recreational cannabis … became legal in Canada. In the data set, we identify people with purchases in a cannabis store after the legalization. We … apply a difference-in-difference approach to compare their spending before and after legalization. People with cannabis …

This paper examines the effect of a change in drugs policy on the age of onset of cannabis use. We use 2012 survey data … several illicit drugs, including cannabis. We estimate the effect of the policy change using a mixed proportional hazards … framework that models the starting rate of cannabis use, i.e. the transition to first cannabis use. We find that the …

like cannabis legal will automatically make all cannabis activity law-abiding in nature, especially if the costs of …