Canadian household prescription drug expenditures are studied using different years of the Statistics Canada Family Expenditure Survey. Master files are used, expanding the number of available years and permitting provincial rather than regional identifiers. Nonparametric Engel curves are...

This paper develops a model of the war against illegal drugs in both producer and consumer countries. The paper studies the trade-off faced by the government of the drug consumer country between prevention policies (aimed at reducing the demand for drugs) and enforcement policies (aimed at...

Using state-level data for the period 1990 through 2007, we estimate the effect of legalizing medical marijuana on suicide rates. Our results suggest that the passage of a medical marijuana law is associated with an almost 5 percent reduction in the total suicide rate, an 11 percent reduction in...

Die Bundesregierung hat einen Gesetzentwurf zur Legalisierung des "kontrollierten Umgangs mit Cannabis" vorgelegt. Das Gesetz regelt die Zulassung des privaten Konsums mit privatem Eigenanbau und in Form von Anbauvereinigungen. Ein weiterer Gesetzentwurf soll bis Jahresende folgen und einen...

Retail prices of major drugs like cocaine and heroin have declined dramatically during the last two decades. This price decline has tended to offset the effects of drug policies aimed at reducing drug use in major industrial countries. The main finding of this paper is that the decline in the...

Coca eradication and interdiction are the most common policies aimed at reducing the production and distribution of cocaine in the Andes, but little is known about their impact on households. This paper uses the shift in the production of coca leaves from Peru to Colombia in 1995 to analyze the...

Alex Brill and Scott Ganz estimate per-capita state-level and county-level non-mortality and total economic burdens of the opioid crisis in 2015.