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 …

Recent debates regarding liberalization of marijuana policies often rest on assumptions
regarding the extent to which such policy changes would lead to a change in marijuana …

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 …

This paper investigates the impact of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs on crime.
Making use of a unique dataset combining detailed school characteristics with geo …

More and more states have passed laws that allow individuals to use marijuana for medical
purposes. There is an ongoing, heated policy debate over whether these laws have …

This paper assembles new evidence on some of the longer-term consequences of US family
planning policies, defined in this paper as those increasing legal or financial access to …

Recent evidence suggests that the short-term transition of the opioid crisis from prescription
opioids to heroin can be attributed to the reformulation of OxyContin, which substantially …

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 …

Drug overdoses involving opioid analgesics have increased dramatically since 1999,
representing one of the United States' top public health crises. Opioids have legitimate …

To encourage anti-drug policing, the federal government and many state governments have
enacted laws that allow police agencies to keep a substantial fraction of the assets that they …