The Impact of Cannabis Retail Accessibility and Health Care and Education Outcomes.

This presentation will highlight recent work from WSIPP’s ongoing long-term evaluation of public health and safety consequences of Initiative 502. In our most recent study, we find that residential access to operational retailers relates to higher rates of cannabis-related health care encounters and the co-occurrence of disordered cannabis use and mental health disorders. In a second study, we find that high school proximity to operational retailers relates to adverse academic outcomes.  

Amani Rashid. Is a Senior Research Associate at the Washington State Institute for Public Policy (WSIPP). Her work uses empirical analytic tools to understand policy as it relates to topics such as public health, behavioral health, and education.