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Legal Weed Didn’t Deliver on Its Promises

2 months ago | theatlantic.com | Jonathan P. Caulkins |Keith Humphreys

In 2012, Colorado and Washington State legalized the commercial production and sale of cannabis for nonmedical use, and since then 22 other U.S. states have followed. The shift was viewed in many quarters as benign and overdue—involving an organic, even medicinal, intoxicant with no serious drawbacks.
Cambios en el consumo de cannabis declarado por los propios pacientes en Estados Unidos entre 1979 y 2022

Sep 4, 2024 | psiquiatria.com | Jonathan P. Caulkins

Antecedentes y objetivosVarios países están considerando revisar las políticas sobre el cannabis. Este estudio tuvo como objetivo medir las tendencias a largo plazo en el consumo de cannabis en los Estados Unidos y compararlas con el consumo de alcohol. Diseño y ambientaciónAnálisis secundario de datos de la encuesta de población general de Estados Unidos. ParticipantesLas encuestas nacionales contaron con un total de 1. 641. 041 participantes en 27 encuestas entre 1979 y 2022.
The radical challenge synthetic opioids pose for drug policy

Aug 19, 2024 | brookings.edu | Jonathan P. Caulkins |Vanda Felbab-Brown

In the show’s first episode, host Vanda Felbab-Brown speaks with Dr. Jonathan Caulkins, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, about the unique challenges that synthetic drugs, and particularly synthetic opioids, pose for policy.
This Isn’t Your Father’s Marijuana Use

May 22, 2024 | washingtonmonthly.com | Jonathan P. Caulkins |Keith Humphreys

A new study has documented a remarkable rise in Americans’ use of marijuana. Over the last 30 years, the number of people who report using the drug in the past month has risen fivefold from 8 million to 42 million. Through the mid-1990s, only about one-in-six or one-in-eight of those users consumed the drug daily or near daily, similar to alcohol’s roughly one-in-ten. Now, more than 40 percent of marijuana users consume daily or near daily.
Destigmatizing Drug Use Has Been a Profound Mistake

Dec 12, 2023 | theatlantic.com | Keith Humphreys |Jonathan P. Caulkins

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The image on the billboard that appeared in downtown San Francisco in early 2020 would have been familiar to anyone who’d ever seen a beer commercial: Attractive young people laughing and smiling as they shared a carefree high. But the intoxicant being celebrated was fentanyl, not beer. “Do it with friends,” the billboard advised, so as to reduce the risks of overdose.
Modeling cartel size to inform violence reduction in Mexico

Sep 21, 2023 | science.org | Jens C. Brüning |Joana I. Meier |Erik D Enbody |Jonathan P. Caulkins

Immense violence and corruption in Mexico, and their connections to illegal drugs in the United States, are a great problem of our time. Mexico’s homicide rate in 2022 was 25 per 100,000, similar to Colombia’s and more than triple the US rate. Measuring corruption is notoriously difficult, but some Mexican criminal organizations have a history of intimidating and bribing government officials (1). On page 1312 of this issue, Prieto-Curiel et al.
Modeling cartel size to inform violence reduction in Mexico

Sep 21, 2023 | sciencemag.org | Sergiy Kalnaus |Connor A Horton |Jun Cheng |Jonathan P. Caulkins

Immense violence and corruption in Mexico, and their connections to illegal drugs in the United States, are a great problem of our time. Mexico’s homicide rate in 2022 was 25 per 100,000, similar to Colombia’s and more than triple the US rate. Measuring corruption is notoriously difficult, but some Mexican criminal organizations have a history of intimidating and bribing government officials (1). On page 1312 of this issue, Prieto-Curiel et al.
Canadian province decriminalizes hard drugs - DW - 02/05/2023

Feb 5, 2023 | dispatchist.com | Jonathan P. Caulkins

Carolyn Bennett, Canada's Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, said that she had "thoroughly reviewed and carefully considered both the public health and public safety impacts of this request.That's why the Canadian government has stated for years that it's "committed to a comprehensive public health approach to the overdose crisis that is focused on reducing harms, saving lives, and getting people the supports they desire and need.However, he's optimistic that progressive measures will...