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November 11, 2019

Challenging the Association of Marijuana Laws With Teen Marijuana Use—Reply

Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, Montana State University, Bozeman
  • 2Department of Economics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver
  • 3Department of Economics, San Diego State University, San Diego
JAMA Pediatr. 2020;174(1):99-100. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.4238

In Reply Our Research Letter,1 published on July 8, 2019, reported 2 main results. Using national and state Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) data, we found no evidence of an association between medical marijuana laws (MMLs) and marijuana use among teenagers. In addition, we found a negative and statistically significant association between recreational marijuana laws (RMLs) and marijuana use.

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