Effects of State Medical Marijuana Laws on Adolescent Marijuana Use
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The effects of medical marijuana laws on illegal marijuana use.
More and more states have passed laws that allow individuals to use marijuana for medical purposes. There is an ongoing, heated policy debate over whether these laws have increased marijuana use among non-patients. In this paper, I address that question empirically by studying marijuana possession arrests in cities from 1988 to 2008. I estimate fixed effects models with city-specific time trend...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2012.301117