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The Effects of Cannabis Use on Physical and Mental Health

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  • Ours, J.C. van
  • Williams, J.

    (Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research)

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This paper investigates whether cannabis use a ects physical and mental health. To do so, information on prime aged individuals living in Amsterdam in 1994 is used. Dutch data offer a clear advantage in estimating the health impacts of cannabis use because the legal status of cannabis in the Netherlands ensures that estimates are free from confounding with the physical and psychological effects of engaging in a criminal activity. Accounting for selection into cannabis use and shared frailties in mental and physical health, the results suggest that cannabis use reduces the mental wellbeing of men and women and the physical wellbeing of men. Although statistically significant, the magnitude of the effect of using cannabis on mental and physical health is found to be small.

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Paper provided by Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research in its series Discussion Paper with number 2011-079.

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Date of creation: 2011
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Handle: RePEc:dgr:kubcen:2011079

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  1. Jan C.van Ours, Jenny Williams, David Fergusson, L. John Horwood, 2012. "Cannabis use and suicidal ideation," Department of Economics - Working Papers Series 1155, The University of Melbourne.

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