| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w29802 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 29802 |
| Marijuana Legalization and Opioid Deaths | |
| Neil K. Mathur; Christopher J. Ruhm | |
| 发表日期 | 2022-02-28 |
| 出版年 | 2022 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Over the last two decades there has been considerable movement at the state-level to legalize marijuana, initially for medical purposes and more recently for recreational consumption. Despite prior research, it is unclear how, if at all, these policies are related to rates of opioid-involved overdose deaths, which have trended rapidly upwards over time and represent a major public health problem. We provide two types of new information on this question. First, we replicate and extend upon previous investigations and show that the empirical results of those studies are frequently fragile and that, in most cases, the inclusion of more comprehensive controls, longer analysis periods and more correctly defined dependent variables results in less favorable estimates, often including predicted increases in opioid deaths. Second, we present new estimates from generalized differences-in-differences and event study models that incorporate more recent data and improvements developed in our replication and extension of early research. These results indicate that legal medical marijuana, particularly when available through retail dispensaries, is associated with higher opioid mortality. The results for recreational marijuana, while less reliable, also suggest that retail sales through dispensaries are associated with greater death rates relative to the counterfactual of no legal cannabis. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29802 |
| 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/587476 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Neil K. Mathur,Christopher J. Ruhm. Marijuana Legalization and Opioid Deaths. 2022. |
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| w29802.pdf（2659KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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