Medical Marijuana laws may be associated with a decline in the number of prescriptions for medicaid enrollees

Health Affairs

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 945-951

  Bradford, Ashley C ^a   Bradford, W David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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MEDICAL CANNABIS;

ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; DRUG APPROVAL; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; LAW; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRESCRIPTION; DRUG COST; ECONOMICS; MEDICAL FEE; UNITED STATES;

DRUG COSTS; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; HUMANS; MEDICAID; MEDICAL MARIJUANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85018944668     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2016.1135     Document Type: Article

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16. Determining when a dispensary became available is complex. Some states' dispensaries sell marijuana to residents of neighboring states who have a valid medical marijuana card fromtheir home state, which implies that some people have access to medical marijuana before a dispensary opens in their state. We estimated versions of our models that defined the presence of a medical marijuana law as being either after the date of implementation of a law that permitted home cultivation or as of the date that a dispensary opened in a state whose law required the use of a dispensary. The direction of associations in those models between laws and Medicaid prescription use were the same as-and the associations were significant and approximately three times larger than-the associations we present in the article. To avoid overstating the strength of the findings and to be consistent with previous literature (see Note 14), we chose to present the more conservative results in the text
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