{"id":8160,"date":"2024-01-08T19:39:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T20:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=8160"},"modified":"2024-01-08T21:06:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T21:06:22","slug":"medical-marijuana-what-we-know-what-we-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=8160","title":{"rendered":"Medical marijuana: What we know, what we don\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.badgerinstitute.org\/medical-marijuana-what-we-know-what-we-dont\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Relevant research for considering a potential Wisconsin medical marijuana bill<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Badger Institute launched a first-of-its-kind initiative in late 2023 to better understand the impact of both adult recreational and medical cannabis legalization in other states and provide the citizens of Wisconsin with a research-backed estimate of what the impact could be here.<\/p>\n

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We have already published multiple installments in this series. More are coming. Here, we summarize the relevant findings thus far related to medical<\/em> marijuana given the arrival of legislation that would allow its use.<\/p>\n

The legislation was outlined by Wisconsin Assembly Republicans<\/a> on Monday. Legislative text was not yet introduced, but news reports described the proposal as limiting cannabis to individuals certified by doctors as suffering from specific illnesses, and permitting them to buy only smokeless forms of the drug through five state-run dispensaries.<\/p>\n

The direct application of our findings to the potential impact of such legislation in Wisconsin is tenuous, given the likely differences between the market proposed and those established by other states. For example, none of the research we have completed analyzes the different impact state-run retail stores may have on any of these factors.<\/p>\n

This page will be updated with additional findings as we continue to publish additional research and reports on the impact of legalization.<\/p>\n

Public Safety<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h4>\n

Research on states that have fully legalized recreational \u2014 that is, adult use<\/em> \u2014 cannabis shows a tradeoff: An overwhelming finding of higher traffic fatalities and, by the weight of the evidence, either no increase and possibly a decrease in statewide crime rates.<\/p>\n

But when you focus solely on the research related to medical<\/em> cannabis legalization, you do not see that same tradeoff.<\/p>\n