One of my main arguments for legalizing weed, cocaine, heroin, etc. relates to costs and benefits when drugs are illegal versus costs and benefits when they’re legal. Specifically, those who bear a large part of the costs when drugs are legal are the users th…

We analyze the effects of legalizing recreational marijuana on state economic and so- cial outcomes (200020) using difference-in-differences estimation robust to staggered timing and heterogeneity of…