The Effect of Marijuana Decriminalization on Hospital Emergency Room Drug Episodes: 1975–1978
大麻非刑事化对医院急诊涉药事件的影响:1975—1978年
Between 1973 and 1978, 12 states with collectively over one-third of the total U.S. population enacted laws that decriminalized the possession of marijuana. This article uses standard metropolitan statistical area (SMSA) level data on hospital emergency room drug episodes collected by the Drug Abuse Warning Network to measure the effect of changes in drug penalties on substance abuse crises. The regression models demonstrate that marijuana decriminalization was accompanied…