Request from a reader who is working on a dissertation regarding incarceration as a result of the war on drugs:
DO YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW MEET THIS CRITERIA:
* Adult daughters (at least 18 years old) * Identify as Black or African American * Father incarcerated as a result of a drug offense […]
Investigators from the University of Colorado at Denver, the University of Oregon, and Montana State University assessed federal data on youth marijuana use and treatment episodes for the years 1993 to 2011 – a time period when 16 states authorized medical cannabis use. Authors reported, “Our results are not consistent with the hypothesis that the legalization of medical marijuana caused an increase in the use of marijuana among high school students. In fact, estimates from our preferred specification are small, consistently negative, and are never statistically distinguishable from zero.”