Background: The past decade has seen unprecedented shifts in the cannabis policy
environment, and the public health impacts of these changes will hinge on how they affect …

▪ Abstract Adolescent resilience research differs from risk research by focusing on the assets
and resources that enable some adolescents to overcome the negative effects of risk …

To date, 19 states have passed medical marijuana laws, yet very little is known about their
effects. The current study examines the relationship between the legalization of medical …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and
poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable …

Drug use represents a significant burden to public health through disease, disability and
social problems, and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in how to develop …

We use a randomized experiment to test whether and what information changes teenagers'
sexual behavior in Kenya. Providing information on the relative risk of HIV infection by …

This paper analyzes the impact of increases in the minimum drinking age on the prevalence
of alcohol and marijuana use among high school seniors. The empirical analysis is based …

Although policymakers and law enforcement officials argue that medical marijuana laws
(MMLs)“send the wrong message” to young people, previous studies have produced no …

This paper considers the costs of reducing consumption of a good by making its production
illegal and punishing apprehended illegal producers. We use illegal drugs as a prominent …

California legalized the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes nearly 17 years ago,
representing a major challenge to the federal government's scheduling of marijuana as a …