Measuring State Cannabis Policy Design Variation for Research and Policy: A Bundles Approach.

IF 3.6 4区 医学 Q2 PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY
Daniel J Mallinson, Lilliard E Richardson
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Abstract

For understanding how cannabis legalization in the American states has affected public health, it is important to consider how policies vary by state. This commentary presents a policy bundles approach to measuring state cannabis policy variation. Measured from 1994 to 2023, three bundles-pharmaceutical, permissive, and fiscal-capture 36 different characteristics of state medical and recreational cannabis laws. The pharmaceutical bundle captures characteristics treating cannabis like a regulated pharmaceutical. The permissive bundle those that treat it like an easily accessed over-the-counter product. Finally, the fiscal bundle captures ways that states raise revenue from cannabis. Furthermore, measures are available capturing either policies as adopted or as implemented, allowing researchers to better link policy effects to actual implementation. The commentary demonstrates the bundle measures using the state of Massachusetts and concludes with future directions for using these publicly available measures for health research.

测量研究和政策的州大麻政策设计差异:捆绑方法。
要了解美国各州的大麻合法化如何影响公众健康,重要的是要考虑各州的政策如何不同。本评论提出了一种政策捆绑方法来衡量各州大麻政策的变化。从1994年到2023年,三种捆绑-制药,许可和财政-捕获了36个不同的州医疗和娱乐大麻法律特征。药物捆绑包捕获了将大麻视为受管制药物的特征。那些将其视为易于获得的非处方产品的宽松捆绑。最后,财政捆绑计划囊括了各州从大麻中获得收入的方式。此外,现有的措施可以捕捉到已采纳或已实施的政策,使研究人员能够更好地将政策效果与实际实施联系起来。评注说明了麻萨诸塞州的综合措施,并总结了在卫生研究中使用这些公开措施的未来方向。
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Clinical therapeutics
Clinical therapeutics 医学-药学
CiteScore
6.00
自引率
3.10%
发文量
154
审稿时长
9 weeks
期刊介绍: Clinical Therapeutics provides peer-reviewed, rapid publication of recent developments in drug and other therapies as well as in diagnostics, pharmacoeconomics, health policy, treatment outcomes, and innovations in drug and biologics research. In addition Clinical Therapeutics features updates on specific topics collated by expert Topic Editors. Clinical Therapeutics is read by a large international audience of scientists and clinicians in a variety of research, academic, and clinical practice settings. Articles are indexed by all major biomedical abstracting databases.
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