Big data on a big new market: Insights from Washington State ’s legal cannabis market

Voters in eight U.S. states have passed initiatives to legalize large-scale commercial production of cannabis for non-medical use. All plan or require some form of “seed-to-sale” tracking systems, which provide a view of cannabis market activity at a heretofore unimagined level of detail. Legal markets also create a range of new matters for policy makers to address.

Source: International Journal of Drug Policy - April 27, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Jonathan P. Caulkins, Yilun Bao, Steve Davenport, Imane Fahli, Yutian Guo, Krista Kinnard, Mary Najewicz, Lauren Renaud, Beau Kilmer Tags: Research paper Source Type: research