Marijuana legalization: Certainty, impossibility, both, or neither?

Journal of Drug Policy Analysis

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Caulkins, Jonathan P ^a   Coulson, Carolyn C ^a   Farber, Christina ^a   Vesely, Joseph V ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug policy; Legalization; Marijuana; Public opinion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873102271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19412851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/1941-2851.1035     Document Type: Article

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