scholarly journals Prevalence of marijuana use does not differentially increase among youth after states pass medical marijuana laws: Commentary on Stolzenberg et al. (2015) and reanalysis of US National Survey on Drug Use in Households data 2002–2011

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 9-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie M. Wall ◽  
Christine Mauro ◽  
Deborah S. Hasin ◽  
Katherine M. Keyes ◽  
Magdalena Cerda ◽  
...  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Hollingsworth ◽  
Coady Wing ◽  
Ashley Bradford

Thirty-four states have adopted medical marijuana laws and ten states have adopted recreational marijuana laws. There is little research comparing how these two types of laws affect drug consumption of the general US population. Using a difference in difference strategy, we find that recreational laws increase past-year marijuana use by 25% among adults and by 10% among adolescents. In contrast, medical laws increase adult use by only 5% and have a negligible effect on adolescent use. We also find that recreational marijuana dispensaries are an important driver of the increase in marijuana use for adults 26 and over. Taken together, our results suggest that medical laws are not de facto recreational laws in that they succeed in mitigating recreational use, that recreational laws have broad effects on overall levels of marijuana use, and that underage marijuana use may be an important problem with existing implementations of recreational marijuana laws.


Author(s):  
D. Mark Anderson ◽  
Benjamin Hansen ◽  
Daniel I. Rees

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine M. Mauro ◽  
Paul Newswanger ◽  
Julian Santaella-Tenorio ◽  
Pia M. Mauro ◽  
Hannah Carliner ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 601-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah S Hasin ◽  
Melanie Wall ◽  
Katherine M Keyes ◽  
Magdalena Cerdá ◽  
John Schulenberg ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 103 (8) ◽  
pp. 1500-1506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah D. Lynne-Landsman ◽  
Melvin D. Livingston ◽  
Alexander C. Wagenaar

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 495-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Mark Anderson ◽  
Benjamin Hansen ◽  
Daniel I. Rees

2016 ◽  
Vol 169 ◽  
pp. 26-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia S. Martins ◽  
Christine M. Mauro ◽  
Julian Santaella-Tenorio ◽  
June H. Kim ◽  
Magdalena Cerda ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. 536-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie M. Wall ◽  
Ernest Poh ◽  
Magdalena Cerdá ◽  
Katherine M. Keyes ◽  
Sandro Galea ◽  
...  

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