We study the effect of state recreational marijuana laws (RMLs) on workers’ compensation (WC) benefit receipt among adults 40-62 years. find that WC declines in response to RML adoption both terms propensity receive benefits and amount. estimate complementary non-traumatic workplace injury rates incidence work-limiting disabilities. offer evidence primary driver these reductions is an improveme...

The widespread prohibition of most recreational narcotics fuels a difficult and long-standing debate that challenges the libertarian ideals of many Western states. The issue calls to question the extent of government involvement in the lives of its constituency, weighed against the very individual freedoms of these people. Though absolute ideals about freedom help to direct policy goals, implem...

In recent years, the question to many physicians around the United States has morphed from, “How about some Viagra, doc?” to, “How about some medical marijuana, doc?” California exemplifies the bookends of the medical marijuana/legalization movement. The movement’s major victory was in November of 1996, when Proposition 215, the Compassionate Use Act, was voted into law, creating a process by w...

Plants of the Cannabis species, commonly known as marijuana, contain numerous psychoactive components, including the primary psychoactive compound D-9-tetrahyrdocannabinol (THC). The World Health Organization (WHO) describes cannabis as the most widely used, cultivated, and trafficked illicit drug in the world, with an estimated 147 million people using the drug annually. Consistent with worldw...