ArticleThe Milbank quarterly2014
Waiting for the opportune moment: the tobacco industry and marijuana legalization.
Article in The Milbank quarterly, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.
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- Threaten, Distract, and Discredit: Cannabis Industry Rhetoric to Defeat Regulation of High-THC Cannabis Products in Washington State.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2024Article
- Assessing use of inhalable nicotine products within complex markets: the dilemma of heated tobacco products.Tobacco control · 2023Article
- Cannabis industry campaign expenditures in Colorado, 2005-2021.The International journal on drug policy · 2023Review
- Cannabis industry lobbying in the Colorado state legislature in fiscal years 2010-2021.The International journal on drug policy · 2022Observational
- Moving targets: how the rapidly changing tobacco and nicotine landscape creates advertising and promotion policy challenges.Tobacco control · 2022Review
- County-Level Recreational Marijuana Policies and Local Policy Changes in Colorado and Washington State (2012-2019).The Milbank quarterly · 2021Article
- Successful countering of tobacco industry efforts to overturn Thailand's ENDS ban.Tobacco control · 2021Article
- Think big about developing the science.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2021Article
- Foreign investment in emerging legal medicinal cannabis markets: the Jamaica case study.Globalization and health · 2021Article
- Six policy lessons relevant to cannabis legalization.The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse · 2019Review
- Marijuana Regulatory Frameworks in Four US States: An Analysis Against a Public Health Standard.American journal of public health · 2018Article
- Perceptions of social norms and exposure to pro-marijuana messages are associated with adolescent marijuana use.Preventive medicine · 2016Article
- A Public Health Framework for Legalized Retail Marijuana Based on the US Experience: Avoiding a New Tobacco Industry.PLoS medicine · 2016Article
- Medical marijuana legalization and cigarette and marijuana co-use in adolescents and adults.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2016Article
- One Minute of Marijuana Secondhand Smoke Exposure Substantially Impairs Vascular Endothelial Function.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2016Article
- Vaping cannabis (marijuana): parallel concerns to e-cigs?Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2015Article
- Confirmation of the trials and tribulations of vaping.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2015Article
- Establishing legal limits for driving under the influence of marijuana.Injury epidemiology · 2014Review
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Abstract
contextIn 2012, Washington State and Colorado legalized the recreational use of marijuana, and Uruguay, beginning in 2014, will become the first country to legalize the sale and distribution of marijuana. The challenge facing policymakers and public health advocates is reducing the harms of an ineffective, costly, and discriminatory "war on drugs" while preventing another public health catastrophe similar to tobacco use, which kills 6 million people worldwide each year.
methodsBetween May and December 2013, using the standard snowball research technique, we searched the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library of previously secret tobacco industry documents (http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu).
findingsSince at least the 1970s, tobacco companies have been interested in marijuana and marijuana legalization as both a potential and a rival product. As public opinion shifted and governments began relaxing laws pertaining to marijuana criminalization, the tobacco companies modified their corporate planning strategies to prepare for future consumer demand.
conclusionsPolicymakers and public health advocates must be aware that the tobacco industry or comparable multinational organizations (eg, food and beverage industries) are prepared to enter the marijuana market with the intention of increasing its already widespread use. In order to prevent domination of the market by companies seeking to maximize market size and profits, policymakers should learn from their successes and failures in regulating tobacco.
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