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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"marijuana laws"”.
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Essays on the Labor Market, Hard Drug Use, and Traffic Fatalities
<p>Medical and recreational marijuana laws have proven to be contentious issues as they are being considered in numerous states in recent years. This dissertation investigates three different aspects of the effect of marijuana legalizations. In the first chapter of this dissertation, my co-author 1 …
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Essays on Marijuana Legalizations
… we investigate the effect of Recreational marijuana laws (RMLs) on Harder Drug Use and Crime. RMLs, which legalize the possession of small quantities of marijuana for recreational use, have been adopted by 18 states and the District of Columbia. Opponents argue that RML-induced increases in …
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Through the Gateway: Marijuana Production, Governance, and the Drug War Détente
<p>Since the 1996 voter approval of medical marijuana laws in California, marijuana policy has become increasingly liberalized. Producers, however, have remained in the greyest of grey market zones. Federal anti-drug laws and supply-side tactics have intensively targeted them even as marijuana has …
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Three essays on crime policy and the Bayesian bootstrap
… the second chapter, I investigate three strikes laws, which mandate sharply increased sentences for criminals who commit a specific number of felonies. Specifically, I analyze the effect of these laws on violent crime rates using municipal-level data from the FBI. I compare violent crime rates of …
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Essays in economics of crime: Guns, drugs, and the police
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01