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，加利福尼亚是第一个通过富有同情心的使用法，该州允许合法使用大麻作为药用或医疗目的。尽管在许多慢性疾病治疗许多慢性疾病中使用大麻的途径，但几乎没有进行系统的研究，研究了这些药房的开放和关闭如何改变其所在社区的生态景观。当前的应用利用了在洛杉矶和萨克拉曼多城市进行的自然实验，以评估这些药房的增长和随后的减少如何导致犯罪和大麻使用以及在十三年期间的依赖发生变化。拟议的研究将研究这些药房的密度和位置之间的关系，大麻和相关产品的价格以及在多种情况下犯罪之间的关系。此外，使用门户调查将使我们能够了解客户旅行以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）检查大麻药房的密度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）是否与药房价格差异有关； （4）调查与高密度区域中利基理论一致的顾客特征是否存在更大的聚类； （5）确定医用大麻使用模式是否对应于整体健康水平和/或医用大麻患者的诊断。