Cloudy with a chance of munchies: Assessing the impact of recreational marijuana legalization on obesity

Autor: Raymond J. March, Veeshan Rayamajhee, Glenn L. Furton
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Health Economics. 31:2609-2629
ISSN: 1099-1050
1057-9230
DOI: 10.1002/hec.4598
Popis: Obesity in the US arguably constitutes the most significant health epidemic over the past century. Recent legislative changes allowing for recreational marijuana use further create a need to better understand the relationship between marijuana use and health choices, leading to obesity. We examine this relationship by using a synthetic control approach to examine the impact of legalized recreational marijuana access on obesity rates by comparing Washington State to a synthetically constructed counterfactual. We find that recreational marijuana's introduction did not lead to increased obesity rates and may have led to decreases in obesity.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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