The study's authors suggest that this could happen because young adults in those states use weed instead of more dangerous drugs.
Ayrn Taylor, an employee at the Venice Beach Care Center, displays medical marijuana at a dispensary in Los Angeles, February 6, 2013.A recent study suggests that states that adopt medical marijuana laws see a decline in workplace fatalities among young adult workers.
The study's authors suggest this could happen because young adults in those states use marijuana instead of more dangerous drugs like alcohol and opioids. The widespread adoption of medical marijuana laws may be having an unexpected effect: making workplaces safer.recent study seems to suggest that states with such laws saw a subsequent drop in the number of workplace fatalitiesThe study, by economists Mark Anderson of Montana State University, Daniel Rees of the University of Colorado, and Erdal Tekin of American University in the, looked at how fatal workplace injuries changed after states adopted medical marijuana laws.
The biggest result that they found was a 19.5% decrease in fatal work injuries among 25- to 44-year-old workers in states that adopted medical marijuana laws, after controlling for various demographic and economic factors.
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