State Recreational Cannabis Laws and Racial Disparities in the Criminal Legal System
研究估计大麻合法化对刑事司法结果中长期种族差异的直接和溢出效应，发现合法化减少了白人和黑人的大麻持有和销售逮捕，但未消除差异，且对严重犯罪逮捕影响不显著。
We estimate the direct and spillover effects of cannabis legalization on longstanding racial disparities in criminal justice outcomes. We find that legalization reduces cannabis possession and sales arrests for White and Black populations, narrowing but not eliminating disparities. We also find spillover increases in hospitalizations involving cannabis and other illegal drugs. However, spillovers on arrests, incarcerations, and crimes involving serious violent or property offenses are insignificant or even decrease. Other illegal drug sales arrests decrease across populations, while illegal drug incarcerations decrease only among White populations. Spillovers on other low-level offenses are insignificant for White but mixed for Black populations.