Stoneover: The Observed Lessons and Unanswered Questions of Cannabis Legalization

Jeffrey Moyer; Nikolay Anguelov

doi:10.5771/9781793651532

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Stoneover: The Observed Lessons and Unanswered Questions of Cannabis Legalization examines the political and social entrepreneurs that champion marijuana decriminalization efforts, their constituents’ attitudes toward legalization, the specific successful reform measures at the state level, and the consequent market dynamics in cannabis commerce. Each chapter presents a unique dataset with specific contributions in understanding local and national trends and outcomes of more than two decades of cannabis legalization efforts. Using detailed analyses of user data, the contributors tackle such social issues as legalization activism in the context of calls to defund the police, the impact of reforms on immigrant communities, the demographic and economic characteristics of legal dispensary customers, medical administrative structures, youth usage, and mortality related to marijuana and other drug use. Stoneover offers policy makers information for future policy designs with a goal to decrease negative externalities and social inequity.

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Edition: 1/2022
Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-5152-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-5153-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 220
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. 1. Notes No access
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1. Reviewing the Polarization-Sorting Debate No access
2. Puzzle: Unexplained Variation in Support for Marijuana Legalization No access
3. Regression Analysis of Support for Legalization No access
4. Discussion: Polarization without Elite Signaling? No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
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1. Effects of Marijuana Law on Crime Rates No access
2. The Consequences of Creating and Enforcing Laws Forbidding Marijuana Use No access
3. Law Enforcement Priorities No access
4. The Harm of Marijuana Use Compared to Liquor and Tobacco No access
5. The Racist Origins of Alcohol and Marijuana Prohibition Laws No access
6. Marijuana Law and Racism No access
7. Black Lives Matter Solutions: Police Defunding versus Marijuana Reform No access
8. Conclusion No access
9. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Intersectionality No access
3. Hypotheses No access
4. Results No access
5. Discussion No access
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7. Appendix No access
1. Hypothetical Expectations No access
2. Attitudes toward Marijuana and Immigration, 1994–2019 No access
3. Conclusion No access
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1. Connecting Racial Justice to Cannabis Legalization No access
2. Building toward Legalization No access
3. Why a Ballot Measure? No access
4. Drafting Question 4 No access
5. Embedding Social Equity in Legalization No access
6. Economic Empowerment Program No access
7. Financing and Ownership in Cannabis No access
8. Diffusing Social Equity No access
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1. Introduction: Opening the Bureaucratic Black Box of Cannabis Policies No access
2. Conclusion No access
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1. Introduction No access
2. Methodology No access
3. Results No access
4. Summary/Conclusion No access
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1. Introduction No access
2. Framing the Debate over Legalization No access
3. Data and Methodology No access
4. The Evidence No access
5. Conclusion No access
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1. Introduction No access
2. Methods No access
3. Results No access
4. Discussion No access
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1. Introduction No access
2. The Opioid Crisis and Marijuana Reform: Incentivizing the Use of a “Less-Dangerous” Drug No access
3. Marijuana Decriminalization Research No access
4. Data and Methods No access
5. Findings and Analysis No access
6. Conclusions and Implications No access
7. Notes No access
8. References No access
Index No access Pages 213 - 214
About the Editors No access Pages 215 - 216
About the Contributors No access Pages 217 - 220