Want to take a
bite out of the American obesity epidemic? Legalize medical marijuana.
That’s the counterintuitive finding of a new study in the journal Health
Economics. Researchers from San Diego State University and Cornell
University found that at the state level, passing a medical marijuana
law (MML) “is associated with a 2 percent to 6 percent decline in the
probability of obesity.” Over the longer term, this effect could be even
larger.
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