US Traffic Fatalities, 1985–2014, and Their Relationship to Medical Marijuana Laws
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US Traffic Fatalities, 1985-2014, and Their Relationship to Medical Marijuana Laws.
OBJECTIVES To determine the association of medical marijuana laws (MMLs) with traffic fatality rates. METHODS Using data from the 1985-2014 Fatality Analysis Reporting System, we examined the association between MMLs and traffic fatalities in multilevel regression models while controlling for contemporaneous secular trends. We examined this association separately for each state enacting MMLs....
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2016.303577