We estimate the effects of legalized recreational marijuana on entry into the foster-care system. Exploiting state-level variation in legalization and its timing, we estimate that legalization decreases foster-care placements by at least 10%, with larger effects in years after legalization, and for admissions for reasons of parental drug and alcohol abuse, physical abuse, neglect, and parental incarceration. Our findings imply that legalization may have important consequences for child welfare, and that substitution toward marijuana from other substances can be an important part of how legalization affects admissions.
For our 50th anniversary, we handed the plant to the artists making its most striking…
Corporate valuation increased in 21 of the 38 states studied following medical marijuana legalization. Gross…
By gently heating your plant matter instead of setting it on fire, a vaporizer extracts…
For the past five years, Texas has lived in a strange legal limbo. The 2018…
Thirty years after Prop 215, the California State Fair crowned its first home-grow champion and…
Senate leaders released a stopgap that would push most of the federal hemp deadline to…