Words Can Be Deceiving: A Review of Variation Among Legally Effective Medical Marijuana Laws in the United States.
Words Can Be Deceiving: A Review of Variation Among Legally Effective Medical Marijuana Laws in the United States.
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10.1515/jdpa-2014-0001
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2014-12
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Boustead A
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Pacula RL;Hunt P;Boustead A
2012年，当美国两个州的选民批准娱乐性使用大麻时，关于如何最好地促进和保护公共健康和安全的公开辩论开始受到各州医用大麻法律的影响。然而，许多讨论被简化为这样一个概念，即各州要么有医用大麻法律，要么没有；几乎没有提到这样一个事实，即各州的法律条款不同。这项研究试图澄清自1990年以来实施的医用大麻法律与消费者/患者最相关的特点，并对最有可能影响使用情况的方面进行分类，从而影响公共卫生和福利影响的强度。有证据表明，将医用大麻法律在各州同质化是具有误导性的，也没有反映医用大麻立法的现实。这种变化可能会对使用和健康结果产生影响，从而影响各州的公共健康。
When voters in two US states approved the recreational use of marijuana in 2012, public debates for how best to promote and protect public health and safety started drawing implications from states’ medical marijuana laws. However, many of the discussions were simplified to the notion that states either have a medical marijuana law or do not; little reference was made to the fact that legal provisions differ across states. This study seeks to clarify the characteristics of medical marijuana laws in place since 1990 that are most relevant to consumers/patients and categorizes those aspects most likely to affect the prevalence of use, and consequently the intensity of public health and welfare effects. Evidence shows treating medical marijuana laws as homogeneous across states is misleading and does not reflect the reality of medical marijuana lawmaking. This variation likely has implications for use and health outcomes, and thus states’ public health.