How medical marijuana smoothed the transition to marijuana legalization in the United States

Annual Review of Law and Social Science

Volumn 13, Issue , 2017, Pages 181-202

  Kilmer, Beau ^a   Maccoun, Robert J ^b  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b STANFORD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Legalization; Marijuana; Medicine; Political psychology, cannabis; Prohibition

Indexed keywords

EID: 85031697445     PISSN: 15503585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-110615-084851     Document Type: Review

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