CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Chikish, Yulia |
|---|---|
| Title | The Effect of Marijuana Decriminalization on Alcohol, Marijuana and Cocaine Consumption |
| Summary | This work uses the 2009 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse to assess the impact of marijuana decriminalization policy on alcohol, marijuana and cocaine use prevalence in US. The results suggest that decriminalization is associated with an increase of both last month and last year marijuana prevalence rates. Moreover, marijuana decriminalization also increases the frequency of use among marijuana users. Marijuana decriminalization is also found to increase the probability of consuming alcohol last month which indicating that marijuana and alcohol are more likely to be complements than substitutes. The effect of marijuana decriminalization on cocaine consumption is found to be positive and significant but very small in magnitude. |
| Supervisor | Péter Mihályi |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/chikish_yulia.pdf |
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