BACKGROUND Dabbing is an emerging method of marijuana ingestion. However, little is known about dabbing owing to limited surveillance data on dabbing. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to analyze Google search data to assess the scope and breadth of information seeking on dabbing. METHODS Google Trends data about dabbing and related topics (eg, electronic nicotine delivery system [ENDS], a...

I n nearly every state in the U.S. today, it is a crime for a doctor either to help a terminally ill person in severe pain commit suicide (physician-assisted suicide, or PAS), or to accede to their request for a quick and painless death by administering a lethal injection (voluntary active euthanasia, or VAE). The one exception is Oregon, which permits PAS under certain conditions. Generally sp...

OBJECTIVES Several US states have legalized or decriminalized physician-assisted suicide (PAS) while others are considering permitting PAS. Although it has been suggested that legalization could lead to a reduction in total suicides and to a delay in those suicides that do occur, to date no research has tested whether these effects can be identified in practice. The aim of this study was to fil...

AIMS No modern jurisdiction has ever legalized commercial production, distribution and possession of cannabis for recreational purposes. This paper presents insights about the effect of legalization on production costs and consumption and highlights important design choices. METHODS Insights were uncovered through our analysis of recent legalization proposals in California. The effect on the ...

We present new estimates of the effect that obtaining legal immigration status has upon the wages of undocumented workers. In estimating the effect of legalization upon wages, we face a number of econometric challenges. First, through the use of rich panel data, we are able to control for the fact that individuals with higher time invariant unobserved ability, which will raise earnings regardle...

CONTEXT The legalization of abortion in the United States led to well-known changes in reproductive behavior, but its effect on adoptions has not been investigated. METHODS Variation across states in the timing and extent of abortion legalization is used to identify the effects of changes in the legal status of abortion on adoption rates from 1961 to 1975. These effects are estimated in regre...

O n November 6, 2012, voters in Colorado and Washington moved to legalize the use and sale of marijuana by adults 21 and older. The passage of Amendment 64, which amended the Colorado constitution, and Initiative 502, which amended the Revised Code of Washington, marked “an electoral first not only for America but the world.”1 In response to the legalization of recreational marijuana, Colorado ...

Notwithstanding a century of prohibition, marijuana is the most widely used illicit substance in Canada. Due to the growing public acceptance of recreational marijuana use and ineffectiveness of the existing control system in Canada, the issue surrounding legalizing this illicit drug has received considerable public and political attentions in recent years. Consequently, the newly elected Liber...