Table 2.
Specific law provisions and degree of provision liberalization for states with a medical marijuana law (MML).
| State | MML Provision Categories | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dispensaries | Home cultivation | Possession | Caregivers+ | Patient Registry |
Index Scores | |||||
| Any allowed | Active by 2011 |
For-profit allowed |
Any allowed |
≥10 plants |
≥2.5 usable ounces |
5 patients allowed |
Voluntary | Prov.1 | Disp.2 | |
| AK | Yes | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| AZ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 4 | 1 | |||
| CO* | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 4 | 3 | |||
| DE | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 3 | 2 | ||||
| ME | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 5 | 3 | ||
| MI | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 4 | 1 | ||||
| MT | Yes | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| NV | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 3 | |||||
| NJ | Yes | Yes | 2 | 3 | ||||||
| NM | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 4 | 3 | |||
| RI | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 4 | 2 | |||
| VT* | Yes | Yes | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Total | 9 (75,913) | 2 (29,455) | 4 (28,619) | 10 (98,168) | 4 (32,583) | 6 (57,167) | 6 (50,777) | 1 (28,149) | 12 (102,124) | |
| Percentage of adolescents living in state with this MML provision out of all states with a MML (N=102,124) | ||||||||||
| % | 74.33 | 28.84 | 28.02 | 96.13 | 31.91 | 55.98 | 49.72 | 27.56 | 100 | |
| Percentage of adolescents living in state with this MML provision out of all observations (N=735,352) | ||||||||||
| % | 10.32 | 4 | 3.89 | 13.35 | 4.43 | 7.77 | 6.91 | 3.83 | 13.89 | |
+
Caregivers: All 12 MML states in this study allow for caregivers
*
States in which this study only has post-MML enactment YRBS data
1
Prov.: Provision Index Score
2
Disp.: Dispensary Index Score