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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Drug Policy. 2023 Jun 15;118:104085. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.104085

Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Trends in prevalences of past month binge drinking by status of cannabis law implementation during 2008–2019.

Note: State-level cannabis law status was classified by 2019 and categorized as a time-invariant the following three-level variable: (1) No MCL nor RCL – refers to states that have never implemented medical cannabis laws or recreational cannabis laws (e.g., Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming); (2) MCL only – refers to states that only implemented medical cannabis laws (e.g., Arizona [2011], Arkansas [2019], Connecticut [2015], Delaware [2015], Florida [2017], Hawaii [2000], Illinois [2016], Maine [1999], Maryland [2018], Michigan [2009], Minnesota [2016], Missouri [2019], Montana [2004], New Hampshire [2016], New Jersey [2013], New Mexico [2008], New York [2016], North Dakota [2019], Ohio [2019], Oklahoma [2019], Pennsylvania [2018], Rhode Island [2006], and West Virginia [2019]); and (3) MCL and RCL – refers to states implemented Recreational Cannabis Laws (e.g., Alaska [2015], California [2017], Colorado [2013], Massachusetts [2017], Nevada [2017], Oregon [2016], Vermont [2019], Washington [2013] and District of Columbia [2015]).