Impact of Marijuana Policies on Alcohol Use and Alcohol-Related Mortality

Funding body

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

Background

The objective of this proposal is to assess the impact of the liberalization of marijuana policies on individual-level alcohol use, concurrent and simultaneous use of alcohol and marijuana, and alcohol-related crash fatalities, suicides and homicides.

Progress to date

Ongoing; the development of the first state-level cannabis policy scales have been completed, multiple manuscripts are in various stages of development and publication.