Cannabis use and support for cannabis legalization
| Autor: | Ali Palali, Jan C. van Ours |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Department of Economics, Research Group: Economics, Applied Economics |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Statistics and Probability
medicine.medical_specialty Economics and Econometrics Opinions on cannabis use Population Inside information 03 medical and health sciences factor approach 0302 clinical medicine Mathematics (miscellaneous) Mixed Proportional Hazard model 0502 economics and business medicine 030212 general & internal medicine 050207 economics education Psychiatry Legalization education.field_of_study biology jel:C31 05 social sciences Causal effect Cannabis use biology.organism_classification cannabis use opinions on cannabis policy jel:I18 jel:K14 Cannabis Psychology Social Sciences (miscellaneous) |
| Zdroj: | Empirical Economics: A quarterly journal of the Institute for Advanced Studies, 53(4), 1747-1770. PHYSICA-VERLAG GMBH & CO Empirical Economics: A quarterly journal of the Institute for Advanced Studies, 53(4), 1747-1770. Physica Verlag |
| ISSN: | 1435-8921 |
| Popis: | We investigate the determinants of the support for cannabis legalization finding a causal effect of personal experience with cannabis use. Current and past cannabis users are more in favor of legalization. We relate this finding to self-interest and inside information about potential dangers of cannabis. While the self-interest effect is not very surprising, the effect of inside information suggests that cannabis use is not as harmful as cannabis users originally thought it was before they started consuming. Our analysis suggests that as the share of cannabis users in the population increases, support for cannabis legalization will also increase. |
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