Evaluating the Geography of Medical Cannabis Facilities on Crime, Price and Use

评估医用大麻设施的地理分布、犯罪、价格和使用情况

• 批准号: 8331437
• 负责人: Bridget J Freisthler
• 金额: $ 54.15万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-15 至 2016-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8331437
• 关键词: ARHGEF5 gene; Affect; Age; Area; Behavior; Birth; California; Cannabis; Cannabis Abuse; Censuses; Characteristics; Child; Child Abuse and Neglect; Chronic Disease; Cities; Client; Communities; County; Crime; Data; Dependence; Diagnosis; Disadvantaged; Drug Formulations; Drug usage; Ecological Change; Epidemic; Exposure to; Geography; Goals; Grant; Growth; Health Status; Individual; Investigation; Legal; Life; Location; Los Angeles; Marijuana; Marijuana Dependence; Measures; Medical; Medical Geography; Methamphetamine; Moderate Exercise; Mothers; National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; Natural experiment; Neighborhoods; Parents; Patient Self-Report; Patients; Pattern; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Police; Prevention; Prevention approach; Prevention strategy; Price; Process; Property; Regulation; Reporting; Research; Risk; Rural; Sales; Sampling; Social Disorganizations; Social support; Surveys; Telephone; Testing; Time; Travel; Violence; Work; abuse neglect; child neglect; child physical abuse; child protective service; density; design; drug abuser; drug addict; drug market; maltreatment; neglect; physical neglect; social; suburb; theories

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In 1996, California was the first state to pass a Compassionate Use Act which allowed for the legal use of cannabis for medicinal or medical purposes. Despite leading the way for the use of cannabis in the treatment of many chronic disorders, little systematic research has been conducted that has examined how the opening and closing of these dispensaries change the ecological landscape of the neighborhoods in which they are located. The current application takes advantage of a natural experiment occurring in Los Angeles and Sacramento Cities to assess how both the growth of and subsequent reduction in these dispensaries has resulted in changes in crime and cannabis use and dependence over a thirteen-year period. The proposed research will examine the relationship between the density and location of these dispensaries, prices of marijuana and related products, and crime in multiple contexts. Further, use of portal surveys will enable us to understand the distance to which clients travel to obtain cannabis and the types of clients who use different dispensaries. Five specific aims will be tested: (1) Examine whether the density of cannabis dispensaries is related to increases in rates of violent and property crimes; (2) Examine whether the changing density of cannabis dispensaries is related to similar changes in rates of cannabis dependence and abuse; (3) Determine whether or not neighborhood characteristics (including location and density of other dispensaries) are related to price differences across dispensaries; (4) Investigate whether or not there is greater clustering by patron characteristics consistent with niche theory in high density areas; and (5) Determine whether or not patterns of medical cannabis use correspond to overall health levels and/or diagnosis of medical cannabis patients.

描述（由申请人提供）：1996 年，加利福尼亚州是第一个通过《同情使用法案》的州，该法案允许合法地将大麻用于药用或医疗目的。尽管在使用大麻治疗许多慢性疾病方面处于领先地位，但很少有系统的研究来检验这些药房的开放和关闭如何改变它们所在社区的生态景观。当前的应用程序利用在洛杉矶和萨克拉门托市进行的自然实验来评估这些药房的增长和随后的减少如何导致十三年期间犯罪以及大麻使用和依赖的变化。拟议的研究将探讨这些药房的密度和位置、大麻及相关产品的价格以及多种背景下的犯罪之间的关系。此外，使用门户调查将使我们能够了解客户获取大麻的距离以及使用不同药房的客户类型。将测试五个具体目标：（1）检查大麻药房的密度是否与暴力和财产犯罪率的增加有关； (2) 检查大麻药房密度的变化是否与大麻依赖和滥用率的类似变化有关； (3) 确定邻里特征（包括其他药房的位置和密度）是否与药房之间的价格差异有关； (4) 调查高密度地区是否存在符合生态位理论的顾客特征的更大聚类； (5) 确定医用大麻的使用模式是否符合医用大麻患者的整体健康水平和/或诊断。