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Title: Effect of cannabis liberalization on suicide and mental illness following recreational access: a state-level longitudinal analysis in the USA

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Publication Year: 2022

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DOI: 10.1101/2020.09.25.20201848

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Abstract: Objective To standardize the implementation dates of various cannabis liberalization policies and determine whether previous research by Anderson et al. [D.M. Anderson, D.I. Rees, J.J. Sabia, American Journal of Public Health 104, 2369-2376] on medical marijuana access and population-level suicidality is robust to additional years of data and further cannabis liberalization in the form of recreational marijuana access. Design A state-level longitudinal (panel) analysis. Suicide mortality rates from the National Center for Health Statistics and mental health morbidity rates from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health were employed with the procedures outlined by Anderson et al., using weighted ordinary least squares for three different specifications with various combinations of control variables as a sensitivity analysis to test for robustness.

Url: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.25.20201848v3

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Authors: James Rich, Jacob; Capodilupo, Robert; Schemenaur, Michael; Singer, Jeffrey A; Jacob James Rich, Correspondence

Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

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Topics: Fertility and Mortality, Health

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