We study whether the work capacity of older working population responds to improved pain management therapy access. use adoption state recreational marijuana laws (RMLs) as a large policy shock access non-pharmaceutical option. focus on workers’ compensation cash benefit receipt measure capacity, finding that declines in response RML adoption. Workers’ benefits are awarded workers who require t...

Despite considerable change in the legal status of marijuana United States 21st century, state Nebraska has become an outlier maintaining a complete prohibition on substance. We estimate overall public support for medical and recreational Nebraska. Our data comes from 2020 Annual Social Indicators Survey, address-based sample Nebraskan adults. asked question Pew Research Center if participants ...

We sought to understand the impact that state-level marijuana policy changes had on use behaviors among people with HIV (PWH), including patterns of (e.g., frequency, modality), access, goals for use, other substances, and perceived health effects. conducted 1:1 interviews at 3 U.S. clinics PWH aged ≥18 reporting weekly or more use; 2 were in states legalized recreational use. coded based su...

An article on the study, " Medical cannabis laws and opioid analgesic overdose mortality in the United States, 1999-2010, " was published in the October 2014 issue of JAMA Internal Medicine. In an invited commentary about the study published in the same issue, Marie of Maine, wrote: " The striking implication is that medical marijuana laws, when implemented, may represent a promising approach f...

Over the past twenty-five years, states have developed elaborate regulatory systems to govern lawful marijuana markets. In designing these systems, assumed that Dormant Commerce Clause (“DCC”) does not apply; Congress, after all, has banned all commerce in marijuana. However, states’ reprieve from doctrine may soon come an end. Congress is on verge of legalizing federally, and once it does, wil...