Despite considerable change in the legal status of marijuana United States 21st century, state Nebraska has become an outlier maintaining a complete prohibition on substance. We estimate overall public support for medical and recreational Nebraska. Our data comes from 2020 Annual Social Indicators Survey, address-based sample Nebraskan adults. asked question Pew Research Center if participants ...

The period from the 1980s to the present has witnessed a lively and unsettled debate concerning the legalization of marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and other illicit substances in the United States. Proponents of legalization argue that the demand for these harmful and potentially addictive substances is not responsive to price. Opponents argue that prices will fall tremendously in a regime charact...

Marijuana use is legal in two states and additional states are considering legalization. Approximately 18 million Americans are current marijuana users. There is currently no consensus on whether marijuana use is associated with cancer risk. Our objective is to review the epidemiologic studies on this possible association. We identified 34 epidemiologic studies on upper aerodigestive tract canc...

The widespread prohibition of most recreational narcotics fuels a difficult and long-standing debate that challenges the libertarian ideals of many Western states. The issue calls to question the extent of government involvement in the lives of its constituency, weighed against the very individual freedoms of these people. Though absolute ideals about freedom help to direct policy goals, implem...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this commentary was to briefly summarize the literature on the relationship between adolescent marijuana use and mental health and how policy changes surrounding marijuana decriminalization and legalization might impact this relationship.  METHODS  A comprehensive literature search on adolescent marijuana use, mental health, and the impact of decriminalization and leg...

Copyright: © 2016 Liu Q. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Over the recent years, public and political opinions have demonstrated increasing support for the legalization of medical marijuana. To ...

We use four data sets (two from law enforcement, two from user reports) to estimate that the current price gradient for marijuana in the United States is $300 $1000 per pound per thousand miles, with $450 being perhaps the best guess. We take this as a measure of the cost of smuggling marijuana through parts of the US interior where marijuana is illegal. We combine this gradient with estimates ...