Klitzner Michael D, Thomas Sue, Schuler Jonathan, Hilton Michael, Mosher James
The CDM Group, Inc., 7500 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, MD, 20814, USA.
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation-Santa Cruz, P.O. Box 7042, Santa Cruz, CA, 95061, USA.
J Prim Prev. 2017 Jun;38(3):295-314. doi: 10.1007/s10935-017-0475-6.
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism's Alcohol Policy Information System (APIS) is, for the first time, adding legal data pertaining to recreational cannabis use to its current offerings on alcohol policy. Now that Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and the District of Columbia have legalized aspects of recreational cannabis, and more states are considering it, there is an urgency to provide high-quality, multi-dimensional legal data to the public health community. This article introduces the Cannabis Policy Taxonomy recently posted on APIS, and explores its theoretical and empirical contributions to the substance abuse literature and its potential for use in policy research. We also present results of interviews with public health experts in alcohol and cannabis policy, which sought to determine the most important variables to address in the initial release of cannabis policy data. From this process, we found that pricing controls emerged as the variable singled out by the largest number of experts. This analysis points to a host of vital policies that are of increasing importance to public health policy scholars and their current and future research.
美国国立酒精滥用与酒精中毒研究所的酒精政策信息系统（APIS）首次在其现有的酒精政策内容中增加了与娱乐性大麻使用相关的法律数据。鉴于科罗拉多州、华盛顿州、俄勒冈州、阿拉斯加州和哥伦比亚特区已将娱乐性大麻的某些方面合法化，且更多州正在考虑此事，因此迫切需要向公共卫生界提供高质量、多维度的法律数据。本文介绍了最近发布在APIS上的大麻政策分类法，并探讨了其对药物滥用文献的理论和实证贡献以及在政策研究中的潜在用途。我们还展示了对酒精和大麻政策方面的公共卫生专家进行访谈的结果，这些访谈旨在确定在大麻政策数据首次发布时需要解决的最重要变量。通过这个过程，我们发现价格控制是被最多专家挑出的变量。这一分析指出了一系列对公共卫生政策学者及其当前和未来研究日益重要的关键政策。
