2012-05-24T14:56:49Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/illegal-drugs.html http://www.rand.org/multi/dprc/marijuana.html Oct 5, 2011 Oct 5, 2011

The RAND Drug Policy Research Center has provided objective analysis and research to decisionmakers for over 20 years. This page collects DPRC's pertinent published articles and studies, presenting unbiased information for those making decisions about marijuana policy.

http://www.rand.org/publications/randreview/issues/2012/spring/news4.html May 11, 2012 May 11, 2012

Marijuana legalization will be on the ballot in at least two U.S. states in November 2012, and it is the subject of serious debate in a growing number of countries. When it comes to understanding the consequences of legalization, the devil is in the details of how the regulatory regime is designed.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2012/04/20/WSJ.html Apr 20, 2012 Apr 20, 2012

Being honest about the uncertainties involved is the price of admission to any serious discussion about marijuana legalization, writes Beau Kilmer.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1228.html Apr 9, 2012 Apr 9, 2012

Illicit drug use continues to be an important public health and safety concern in Europe. An evaluation of the EU Drugs Strategy 2005–12 and Action Plans examines the implementation, relevance, and influence of the Strategy and its added value for Member States and at EU level.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120050.html Apr 1, 2012 Apr 1, 2012

This study seeks to assess more comprehensively the results of decisions on whether and how to 'schedule' (i.e. to determine their legal status and penalties to be applied for sale or possession) newly emerging drugs.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120048.html Feb 1, 2012 Feb 1, 2012

Oregon's experience suggests that behavioral health insurance parity that places restrictions on how plans manage the benefit may lead to increases in expenditures for alcohol treatment services but is unlikely to lead to increases in spending for other drug abuse treatment services.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120005.html Jan 1, 2012 Jan 1, 2012

How legalizing marijuana would affect consumption and tax revenues will depend on many design choices including tax level, incentives for a continued black market, whether advertising is restricted, and how the regulatory system is designed and adjusted.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120049.html Jan 1, 2012 Jan 1, 2012

This study describes CHOICE, a voluntary after-school program which targeted AOD use among middle school students.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120038.html Jan 1, 2012 Jan 1, 2012

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1125.html Oct 25, 2011 Oct 25, 2011

Violent drug-trafficking organizations in Mexico produce, transship, and deliver into the U.S. tens of billions of dollars worth of narcotics annually. A Delphi exercise offers an assessment of the security situation in Mexico through the lens of existing research on urban unrest, historical insurgencies, and defense-sector reform.

http://www.rand.org/randeurope/research/projects/illicit-drug-market-in-europe.html Sep 19, 2011 Sep 19, 2011

To further analyze Europe's illicit drug market and the EU's responses to it, DPRC and RAND Europe are teaming with European partners to expand their original 2009 research on the global drug market.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100213.html Aug 31, 2011 Aug 31, 2011

Having a greater knowledge of the amount of marijuana consumed and produced in each country will sustain substantially informed debates both sides of the border.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100215.html Aug 31, 2011 Aug 31, 2011

Tener un mayor conocimiento sobre la cantidad de marihuana consumida y producida en cada país permitirá sostener debates sustancialmente informados a ambos lados de la frontera.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100179.html Aug 31, 2011 Aug 31, 2011

The large cross-school variation in the cost of implementing Project CHOICE (a voluntary after-school prevention program for adolescents) highlights the importance of collecting cost information from multiple sites.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2011/06/15.html Jun 15, 2011 Jun 15, 2011

Efforts by the United States to combat Latin American cocaine smugglers have disrupted drug supplies and captured key cartel leaders, but they have not significantly reduced the region's overall narcotics trade.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1076.html Jun 15, 2011 Jun 15, 2011

Efforts by the United States to combat Latin American cocaine smugglers have disrupted drug supplies and captured key cartel leaders, but they have not significantly reduced the region's overall narcotics trade.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110081.html May 31, 2011 May 31, 2011

More-popular middle school students are more likely to be cigarette smokers, drinkers, and marijuana users, as well as past-month drinkers, suggesting that popularity is a risk factor for substance abuse.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100117.html May 31, 2011 May 31, 2011

Providing group cognitive behavioral therapy for depression to clients with persistent depressive symptoms receiving residential substance abuse treatment is associated with improved depression and substance use outcomes.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110020.html Jan 31, 2011 Jan 31, 2011

The chemical compounds found in marijuana deserve more attention as efforts to regulate marijuana for medical and recreational use go forward.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100264.html Jan 1, 2011 Jan 1, 2011

Using administrative data from the largest Medicaid managed behavioral health organization in a large mid-Atlantic state and multivariate regression, this article examines rates and predictors of opioid agonist use and treatment setting for 14,386 new opioid dependence treatment episodes during 2007–2009.