The Cross-Border Spillover Effects of Recreational Marijuana Legalization / Zhuang Hao, Benjamin Cowan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hao, Zhuang.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Cowan, Benjamin.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w23426.

NBER working paper series no. w23426

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2017.

Summary:

We examine the spillover effects of recreational marijuana legalization (RML) in Colorado and Washington on neighboring states. We find that RML causes a sharp increase in marijuana possession arrests in border counties of neighboring states relative to non-border counties in these states. RML has no impact on juvenile marijuana possession arrests but is rather fully concentrated among adults. Using separate data on self-reported marijuana use, we show this is accompanied by an increase in use in neighboring states relative to non-neighboring states. We do not find conclusive evidence that marijuana sale/manufacture arrests, DUI arrests, or opium/cocaine possession arrests in border states are affected by RML.

Notes:

Print version record

May 2017.