| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w29038 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 29038 |
| Is Recreational Marijuana a Gateway to Harder Drug Use and Crime? | |
| Joseph J. Sabia; Dhaval M. Dave; Fawaz Alotaibi; Daniel I. Rees | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-07-19 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Recreational marijuana laws (RMLs), which legalize the possession of small quantities of marijuana for recreational use, have been adopted by 18 states and the District of Columbia. Opponents argue that RML-induced increases in marijuana consumption will serve as a “gateway” to harder drug use and crime. Using data covering the period 2000-2019 from a variety of national sources (the National Survey of Drug Use and Health, the Uniform Crime Reports, the National Vital Statistics System, and the Treatment Episode Data Set) this study is the first to comprehensively examine the effects of legalizing recreational marijuana on hard drug use, arrests, drug overdose deaths, suicides, and treatment admissions. Our analyses show that RMLs increase adult marijuana use and reduce drug-related arrests over an average post-legalization window of three to four years. There is little evidence to suggest that RML-induced increases in marijuana consumption encourage the use of harder substances or violent criminal activity, and some evidence that RMLs may aid in reducing opioid-related mortality. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Other ; Law and Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29038 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/586712 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Joseph J. Sabia,Dhaval M. Dave,Fawaz Alotaibi,et al. Is Recreational Marijuana a Gateway to Harder Drug Use and Crime?. 2021. |
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