Can individuals’ aversion to drug markets curb the benefits of decriminalization? We investigate effect two policies on housing demand in Netherlands: distance-to-school criterion, which closed some cannabis shops a few cities; and zero-tolerance policy, banned within municipal jurisdictions. While small increase distance retailers raised house prices by 1–5%, substantial reduced them 1–6%. Bot...

This technical report updates the 2004 American Academy of Pediatrics technical report on the legalization of marijuana. Current epidemiology of marijuana use is presented, as are definitions and biology of marijuana compounds, side effects of marijuana use, and effects of use on adolescent brain development. Issues concerning medical marijuana specifically are also addressed. Concerning legali...

Marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug, with approximately 200 million users worldwide. Once illegal throughout the United States, cannabis is now legal for medicinal purposes in several states and for recreational use in 3 states. The current wave of decriminalization may lead to more widespread use, and it is important that cardiologists be made aware of the potential for marijuana-as...

For nearly 250 years, Americans have been able to ponder on their relatively short, but extensive ideological history. The United States was founded upon a number of ideals, arguably the most predominant and preceding has freedom. Heavily influenced by Enlightenment, U.S. founders laid propositions protecting natural rights, while limiting governmental authority retract these so-called “God-giv...

This paper investigates the relationship between labor supply and the consumption of marijuana and cocaine using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Previous studies have yielded mixed evidence but have used potentially inadequate measures to account for the simultaneity between drug consumption and labor supply. I implement an instrumental variable procedure that utilizes a se...

Purpose: The purpose of current work is to study the decriminalization agro-industrial complex as most important factor in food security, well a way solve problems affecting state security Russian Federation, legal support national priorities related independence. Design/methodology/approach: methodological basis research was formed by general scientific and private methods. Findings: Today sec...

Drawing on content analysis of 517 New York Times news reports published between 1995 and 2016, the author examines institutionalization opioid responses in terms changing media framing use. The findings indicate that frames were situated lenses medicalization decriminalization. Modes penal social control shifted as early 1990s because budgetary concerns. Drug reform efforts pushed law enforcem...