ReviewAnnual review of medicine2016
Marijuana Legalization: Impact on Physicians and Public Health.
Review in Annual review of medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
75 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 200 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cannabis and cannabinoids in dermatology: a systematic review and meta-analysis of quantitative outcomes.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Pooled it
- A systematic review of the effectiveness of employer-led interventions for drug misuse.Journal of occupational health · 2020Pooled it
- Assessing Responses to Cannabis Health Warnings Among Adults in U.S. Recreational States.American journal of preventive medicine · 2025Trial
- The Highs and Lows of Fracture Fixation: Complications After Wrist Fracture Fixation for Users of Cannabis, Tobacco, or Neither Substance.Hand (New York, N.Y.) · 2026Article
- Associations between cannabis use, cannabis use motivations and past year polysubstance use among people living with HIV in Florida.AIDS care · 2026Article
- Special issue: The harms and benefits of cannabis and cannabinoids in women and men and effects on their progeny.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2026Article
- Comparing random forest and elastic net models to predict substance use disorder transitions in participants with cannabis and stimulant use: Evidence from the All of Us cohort.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2026Article
- A systematic review investigating prenatal cannabis and tobacco co-exposure: Impacts on neonatal, behavioral, cognitive and physiological outcomes.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2025Review
- Differential Effects of Cannabinoid Receptor 2 Agonists on HIV Replication and Inflammatory Activation in Monocyte-Derived Macrophages and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Microglia.Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology · 2025Article
- Marijuana policy and tribal communities in the United States.Journal of public health policy · 2025Review
- Enablers, Barriers and Practical Applications of a Group-Based Pain Self-Management Program for Patients Receiving Medical Cannabis: A Qualitative Study of Patients and Clinicians.Pain practice : the official journal of World Institute of Pain · 2025Article
- Prenatal Cannabis and Tobacco Co-Exposure and Its Association with Behavioural Outcomes in Middle Childhood: Co-exposition prénatale au cannabis et au tabac et son association avec les résultats comportementaux au cours de l'enfance intermédiaire.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2025Article
- Trends in marijuana and heavy alcohol use by cigarette smoking status among US adults: An analysis of the 2002-2019 NSDUH.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2024Article
- Post-Ischemic Stroke Cardiovascular Risk Prevention and Management.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Structure-based identification of a G protein-biased allosteric modulator of cannabinoid receptor CB1.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Warning Labels as a Public Health Intervention: Effects and Challenges for Tobacco, Cannabis, and Opioid Medications.Annual review of public health · 2024Review
- Perceived Risks and Benefits and Frequency of Cannabis Use Among People with HIV in Different Legal Environments.AIDS research and human retroviruses · 2024Article
- Fear of COVID-19 and illicit drug use during COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: a case-control study.PeerJ · 2024Article
- Density of cannabis outletsPeerJ · 2024Article
- A systematic review of cannabis health warning research.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Review
15 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Marijuana is becoming legal in an increasing number of states for both medical and recreational use. Considerable controversy exists regarding the public health impact of these changes. The evidence for the legitimate medical use of marijuana or cannabinoids is limited to a few indications, notably HIV/AIDS cachexia, nausea/vomiting related to chemotherapy, neuropathic pain, and spasticity in multiple sclerosis. Although cannabinoids show therapeutic promise in other areas, robust clinical evidence is still lacking. The relationship between legalization and prevalence is still unknown. Although states where marijuana use is legal have higher rates of use than nonlegal states, these higher rates were generally found even prior to legalization. As states continue to proceed with legalization for both medical and recreational use, certain public health issues have become increasingly relevant, including the effects of acute marijuana intoxication on driving abilities, unintentional ingestion of marijuana products by children, the relationship between marijuana and opioid use, and whether there will be an increase in health problems related to marijuana use, such as dependence/addiction, psychosis, and pulmonary disorders. In light of this rapidly shifting legal landscape, more research is urgently needed to better understand the impact of legalization on public health.
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