Mitchell L. Doucette, Dipak Hemraj, Emily Fisher, D. Luke Macfarlan
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Introduction Recent studies suggest that medical cannabis laws might contribute to a reduction in health insurance costs within the individual health insurance markets at the state level. We investigated the effects of adopting a medical cannabis law on the cost of employer-sponsored health insurance.