Medical Marijuana Laws and Illegal Marijuana Use
| Autor: | Yu-Wei Luke Chu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Time trends 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified FOS: Law Fixed effects model Possession (law) Criminology FOS: Health sciences 140399 Econometrics not elsewhere classified 140299 Applied Economics not elsewhere classified FOS: Economics and business Marijuana use Law Political science mental disorders medicine Psychiatry Illegal drug use |
| DOI: | 10.25455/wgtn.22351588 |
| Popis: | 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 trends that can condition on unobserved heterogeneities across cities in both their levels and trends. I find that these laws increase marijuana arrests among adult males by about 15-20%. These results are further validated by findings from data on treatment admissions to rehabilitation facilities: marijuana treatments among adult males increased by 10-20% after the passage of medical marijuana laws. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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