The Impact of Medical Marijuana Laws and Dispensaries on Self-Reported Health

Q3 Economics, Econometrics and Finance Forum for Health Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2019-10-16 DOI:10.1515/fhep-2019-0002

E. Andreyeva, Benjamin Ukert

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Abstract Growing evidence suggests that medical marijuana laws have harm reduction effects across a variety of outcomes related to risky health behaviors. This study investigates the impact of medical marijuana laws on self-reported health using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System from 1993 to 2013. In our analyses we separately identify the effect of a medical marijuana law and the impact of subsequent active and legally protected dispensaries. Our main results show surprisingly limited improvements in self-reported health after the legalization of medical marijuana and legally protected dispensaries. Subsample analyses reveal strong improvements in health among non-white individuals, those reporting chronic pain, and those with a high school degree, driven predominately by whether or not the state had active and legally protected dispensaries. We also complement the analysis by evaluating the impact on risky health behaviors and find that the aforementioned demographic groups experience large reductions in alcohol consumption after the implementation of a medical marijuana law.

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医用大麻法律和药房对自我报告健康的影响

越来越多的证据表明，医用大麻法律在与危险健康行为相关的各种结果中具有减少危害的作用。本研究利用行为风险因素监测系统1993年至2013年的数据，调查了医用大麻法律对自我报告健康的影响。在我们的分析中，我们分别确定了医用大麻法律的影响以及随后活跃和受法律保护的药房的影响。我们的主要结果显示，在医用大麻合法化和受法律保护的药房之后，自我报告的健康状况的改善令人惊讶地有限。亚样本分析显示，非白人、慢性疼痛患者和高中学历人群的健康状况有了明显改善，这主要受国家是否有活跃的、受法律保护的药房的影响。我们还通过评估对危险健康行为的影响来补充分析，发现上述人口群体在实施医用大麻法后酒精消费量大幅减少。

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