Marijuana-Related Uses

This article challenges the notion that medical marijuana dispensaries are more likely to be located in poor neighborhoods and neighborhoods of color than in affluent and non-Hispanic white neighborhoods. The authors analyzed the location of medical marijuana dispensaries in Denver and found no support for the ideas that dispensaries are more likely to be opened in Hispanic, Black, and poor neighborhoods than in non-Hispanic White and affluent neighborhoods or that opening dispensaries will tend to increase the minority composition and poverty of the neighborhoods in which they are located.