Seong-min Park, Shon Reed (both Criminal Justice), Jay J. Shen (Public Health), and Ji Won Yoo (Medicine) recently published an article, “The Effect of Marijuana Legalization on the Trajectories of Hard Drug–related Hospitalizations: A Growth Curve Analysis of the County-level State Inpatient Database in Washington, 2009–2015 ” in the Journal of Drug Issues. In response to the recent liberalization of marijuana, this paper addressed the longitudinal effect of marijuana legalization on hard-drug-related hospitalizations in the state of Washington. Reed is a Ph.D. student.
