Around 50 years ago, the Netherlands decriminalized cannabis for recreational use. This paper uses retrospective data on the ages at which individuals began and ceased cannabis use to reconstruct its prevalence in Amsterdam during the period surrounding the policy change. This approach enables a...

With the change in legal status, marijuana is not really being legalized or even just decriminalized. It is being made regulatable or, to coin a phrase, regulatabilized. Markets in illegal goods — along with the goods’ creation, cultivation, distribution, taxation, sale, etc. — are...

This paper used publicly available data, such as the analysis of 103 court cases to make a profile of those convicted for cannabis cultivation in Albania. There are multiple reports on drugs and organized crime in Albania which provide information on the seizures of illicit substances, law...

Anders als in Frankreich und China, die seit Jahren weltweit führenden Produzenten von Nutzhanf sind, werden in Deutschland die Chancen des Nutzhanfs vernachlässigt. Was sind die Gründe hierfür und wo lässt sich ansetzen, um an der Nischenposition des Nutzhanfs in Deutschland etwas zu...

Cannabis legalization is celebrated by many as a long-overdue rectification of a drug policy that has oppressed and incarcerated vulnerable people and communities for decades. But as the legalization era continues and the legal cannabis industry starts to take shape, legalization advocates and...

The cannabis plant, as a hemp, could contribute better than previously thought to achieving the goals of the UN Sustainable Development Report, the so-called Agenda 2030 and its 17 SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). From a health perspective, its medicinal use is the main focus, but it is...

Cannabis is no longer a movement. It is an industry estimated to be worth $50 billion as of January 2019. Currently, 46 states in the United States (the “U.S.”) have laws permitting or decriminalizing marijuana or marijuana-based products. Many of these states are enacting these marijuana...

Although many states have decriminalized or legalized cannabis, it remains a Schedule 1 drug under the federal Controlled Substances Act. The conflict between federal and state law presents many complicated issues, including significant problems relating to insurance coverage. Insurance law...

Die Cannabispflanze könnte als Nutzhanf besser als bisher gedacht dazu beitragen, die Ziele des UN-Nachhaltigkeits-Reports, der sog. Agenda 2030 und deren 17 SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), zu erreichen. Unter dem Gesundheitsaspekt steht ihre medizinische Verwendung im Vordergrund, doch...

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The gateway hypothesis proposes that cannabis use increases the risk of starting to consume hard drugs. We test this controversial, but influential, hypothesis on a sample of cannabis users employing a unique set of drug prices. A flexible approach is developed to identify the causal gateway...