Marijuana and the U.S. Navy: the impact of changing laws, attitudes and behavior on recruiting

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dc.contributor.advisorSullivan, Ryan
dc.contributor.advisorSeagren, Chad
dc.contributor.authorMartinez Alvarez, Katherine G.
dc.contributor.departmentBusiness & Public Policy (GSBPP)
dc.dateMar-17
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-10T16:31:52Z
dc.date.available2017-05-10T16:31:52Z
dc.date.issued2017-03
dc.description.abstractWhile marijuana remains a Schedule I drug under federal regulations, 28 states have legalized it in some form. Meanwhile, the U.S. Navy's Zero Tolerance policy and the Department of Defense drug testing program have become stricter. As marijuana becomes more popular, the Navy faces a recruiting challenge. This thesis analyzes the generational shift of perception toward marijuana legalization and the impact of legalization on military accessions and marijuana waivers granted in the U.S. Navy. I utilize a difference-in-difference (DID) framework with accession data from Naval Recruiting Command to study these issues. On a basic level, the DID framework compares total number of marijuana waivers and accessions in states where marijuana has been legalized with those states where it is not legal, over time. The data I use includes the total number of U.S. Navy accessions and marijuana waivers granted in each of the 50 states and U.S. territories from October 2010 until January 2017. I find that state marijuana legalization leads to a decrease of 0.2 waivers granted per month in the most robust model (i.e., when comparing states that have legalized marijuana to those that have not while controlling for state and time fixed effects). In addition, the estimates suggest legalization increases the total number of recruits by 4.9 per month in a similar framework. Both of these results were statistically significant at the standard 5 percent level.en_US
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dc.description.serviceLieutenant, United States Navyen_US
dc.description.urihttp://archive.org/details/marijuanandusnav1094553016
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10945/53016
dc.publisherMonterey, California: Naval Postgraduate Schoolen_US
dc.rightsThis publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.en_US
dc.subject.authorNavyen_US
dc.subject.authorrecruitingen_US
dc.subject.authorrecruiten_US
dc.subject.authorconduct waiveren_US
dc.subject.authoraccessionen_US
dc.subject.authorpre-accessionen_US
dc.subject.authorMilitary Entry Processing Stationen_US
dc.subject.authorMEPSen_US
dc.subject.authordrug testen_US
dc.subject.authormarijuanaen_US
dc.subject.authorcannabisen_US
dc.subject.authorTHCen_US
dc.subject.authormedical marijuanaen_US
dc.subject.authorrecreational marijuanaen_US
dc.subject.authorpersonalized recruiting for immediate and delayed enlistmenten_US
dc.subject.authorPRIDEen_US
dc.subject.authordifference-in-differenceen_US
dc.titleMarijuana and the U.S. Navy: the impact of changing laws, attitudes and behavior on recruitingen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dspace.entity.typePublication
etd.thesisdegree.disciplineManagementen_US
etd.thesisdegree.grantorNaval Postgraduate Schoolen_US
etd.thesisdegree.levelMastersen_US
etd.thesisdegree.nameMaster of Science in Managementen_US
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