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Recreational marijuana policy is great for studying how effective policy adoption and implementation works, mainly due to its unique nature. Colorado cities, municipalities, and counties can currently choose how to adopt marijuana legalization policies, and whether or not they want to at all. By using this state as a case study, one researcher has found that public opinion, tax revenues, and existing medical marijuana policies have the biggest impact on local governments’ decisions to allow the sale of recreational marijuana. The study was published in State and Local Government Review, a SAGE journal.
For the study, Dr. Tracy L. Johns, research director at the Florida Survey Research Center (FSRC) at the University of Florida, examined surveys completed by 110 local government officials throughout Colorado and analyzed their answers in order to create a profile on the reasons officials made certain decisions regarding recreational marijuana. She found public opinion was the reason behind 95.5...
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