little attention at the time it was signed deems persons covered by the program to be disabled under the New York State Human Rights Law. N.Y. Executive Law §296 (2005). And, the CCA prohibits any criminal penalties for physicians, patients or ROs for participating in the program.

Implementation of the CCA began in 2015 when the New York State Department of Health promulgated regulations. On July 31st of that year, licenses were awarded to five ROs and a certification course for physicians became available. ROs began dispensing medical marijuana to patients in January 2016. That same month, the first major change in the CCA’s initially narrow reach took place: Nurse practitioners and physicians’ assistants were permitted to certify patients to take part in the program in addition to doctors,and practices, and whether and how these drive male perpetrated IPV. The questions which were asked in the interviews were developed by the authors of this paper for the purpose of this study.

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The trial was conducted in four districts located in the Central Region of Ghana. Two of these districts are along the coast while the other two districts are inland districts. The four districts in the study (each comprising about 10 communities) were selected based on operational and program considerations. Selection of participating districts was done using a census map of the Central Region that showed Inland and Coastal districts.

After excluding some districts because previous intervention work on VAW has been carried out in those districts; two inland and two coastal districts were then purposively selected