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Young Adults Who Live Near Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Use Marijuana More Often, Have More-Positive Views
Young adults who live in neighborhoods with more medical marijuana dispensaries use marijuana more frequently than their peers and have more-positive views about the drug. The associations were strongest among young adults who lived near dispensaries that had storefront signs.

Education Reform
Research Brief
What Other States Can Learn from Louisiana's School Reform
Louisiana's education policy changes aim to improve outcomes for public school students statewide. How well are these reforms working? Analyses of the state's early efforts to reshape its education system point to several early successes, remaining challenges, and key lessons.
Military Strategy
Report
Lessons Learned from the Battle for Baghdad
A review of the U.S. Army's efforts in the Iraq War, especially in Baghdad, offers insights and recommendations that could help leaders avoid the same mistakes in future conflicts. One important lesson is that DoD war plans need to include actions to ensure long-term stability.
Homelessness
Report
Local Effort Reduces Homelessness and Use of City Services
A program that provided chronically homeless individuals with housing, health care, and other support services helped them get off the streets and reduced spending on public services such as law enforcement and emergency medical care.
Secondary Education
Report
Secondary Educators Consider Discipline Reform a Priority
One quarter of principals and 31 percent of teachers surveyed identified discipline reform as one of the top three most important interventions needed in their secondary schools. And those in high-poverty schools were more likely than those in low-poverty schools to do so.

Report
Ethics in Scientific Research
An analysis of how ethics are created, monitored, and enforced finds which ethical principles are common across scientific disciplines, how these ethics might vary geographically, and how emerging topics are shaping future ethics.
Commentary
How Community Colleges Can Establish Better Partnerships with Employers
Career and technical education programs give students a chance to engage in learning relevant to their chosen fields and apply immediately for jobs. A strategic vision of collaboration between industry and community colleges can be of great benefit to all parties involved.
Report
Social Media Helps the Army Connect with Potential Recruits
Social media can be used to raise awareness of the Army among the public, but it's especially important for potential recruits and the adults who might influence them. An analysis of how people are engaging with GoArmy.com and the Army's Facebook and Twitter accounts suggests ways the Army could improve its outreach strategy.
Research Brief
Facts vs. Opinions: How the News Is Changing in the Digital Age
Technology has transformed how people get information. But it has also affected the way that information is produced, shared, and disseminated. How much has the presentation of news actually changed over the last three decades?

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Our findings suggest that as the marijuana retail outlets become more visible and more numerous, they may influence the way that young adults perceive and use marijuana.
Regina A. Shih

Director, Social and Behavioral Policy Program
Source: RAND News Release
If Iran is indeed responsible for this week's attacks, it's because they feel they have nothing to lose. That's a byproduct of an all-sanctions policy, which is all sticks and leaves no carrots on the table.
Ariane M. Tabatabai

Associate Political Scientist
Source: U.S. News & World Report
While [Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates] don't want open conflict, they wouldn't mind the U.S. giving Iran a bloody nose to send the message that gray zone subversion won't be tolerated.
Becca Wasser

Policy Analyst
Source: Foreign Policy
The Taiwanese have been observing how China's 'One Country, Two Systems' approach has worked out in Hong Kong, and it isn't too inspiring.
Derek Grossman

Senior Defense Analyst
Source: CNBC
If you can use the summer time to really dig in with kids who wouldn't have that kind of opportunity otherwise and are not doing well in school, it's time well spent... Summer can be a way to try to narrow disparities and gaps in achievement as well as in opportunity to activities.
Catherine H. Augustine

Director, Pittsburgh Office
Source: Michigan Radio (NPR)

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RAND Corporation Provides Objective Research Services and Public Policy Analysis

Young Adults Who Live Near Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Use Marijuana More Often, Have More-Positive Views

What Other States Can Learn from Louisiana's School Reform

Lessons Learned from the Battle for Baghdad

Local Effort Reduces Homelessness and Use of City Services

Secondary Educators Consider Discipline Reform a Priority

Ethics in Scientific Research

How Community Colleges Can Establish Better Partnerships with Employers

Social Media Helps the Army Connect with Potential Recruits

Facts vs. Opinions: How the News Is Changing in the Digital Age

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