At the time this work was conducted, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula and Beau Kilmer were with the Drug Policy Research Center, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA. Alexander C. Wagenaar was with the Department of Health Outcomes and Policy, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville. Frank J. Chaloupka was with the Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois, Chicago. Jonathan P. Caulkins was with the Heinz School of Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Am J Public Health. 2014 Jun;104(6):1021-8. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301766. Epub 2014 Apr 17.
Until November 2012, no modern jurisdiction had removed the prohibition on the commercial production, distribution, and sale of marijuana for nonmedical purposes-not even the Netherlands. Government agencies in Colorado and Washington are now charged with granting production and processing licenses and developing regulations for legal marijuana, and other states and countries may follow. Our goal is not to address whether marijuana legalization is a good or bad idea but, rather, to help policymakers understand the decisions they face and some lessons learned from research on public health approaches to regulating alcohol and tobacco over the past century.
截至 2012 年 11 月，还没有任何一个现代司法管辖区取消禁止出于医疗目的之外的大麻的商业生产、分销和销售——甚至荷兰也没有。科罗拉多州和华盛顿的政府机构现在负责发放生产和加工许可证，并制定合法大麻的法规，其他州和国家也可能效仿。我们的目的不是讨论大麻合法化是好是坏，而是帮助政策制定者了解他们所面临的决策，并从过去一个世纪对监管酒精和烟草的公共卫生方法的研究中吸取一些经验教训。
