Table 2.

Price Paid per Bulk Gram of Marijuana by Arrestees Subject to Different Policies ($2004)

		No policy	Policy in Effect
Panel A: Price paid by arrestees under different state laws
Conditional discharge	Mean	$6.55	$10.69	***
	N	1252	9118
Physician recommendation/Medical necessity	Mean	$6.91	$16.13	***
	N	6682	3688
Decriminalization	Mean	$9.54	$10.81	**
	N	5118	5252
Panel B: Prices paid by arrestees in states that changed physician recommendation/medical necessity laws since 2000
Colorado	Mean	$3.59	$4.87	*
	N	94	297
Hawaii	Mean	$18.11	$23.44
	N	13	143
Nevada	Mean	$7.78	$9.17
	N	233	239

Note: All figures are adjusted for inflation and reported in $2004. A two-sided sample t test is used to compare means. Statistically meaningful differences are indicated as follows:

^*significant at 10%;

^**significant at 5%;

^***significant at 1%.