Sentences with phrase «adolescent use of marijuana»

The adolescent use of marijuana in Colorado is way below the national average.

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Previous research that focused on adolescents» use of the drug in the wake of medical marijuana laws didn't find an increase in that age group, she said.

... Our concerns have always been around the impact of increased marijuana use on highway safety and the health problems spelled out by the American Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association caused by chronic use especially among adolescents.»

in email that while she has voted «to decriminalize the possession and use of marijuana as well as the sale and use of medicinal marijuana,» she does not support legalization, citing «serious concerns about marijuana being a gateway drug» and its potential impact on the adolescent brain.

Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy, who has endorsed Mayor Sheehan, told The Alt in email that while she has voted «to decriminalize the possession and use of marijuana as well as the sale and use of medicinal marijuana,» she does not support legalization, citing «serious concerns about marijuana being a gateway drug» and its potential impact on the adolescent brain.

Examining more than 20 years of national data for U.S. adolescents, a research team led by Andrew Subica at the University of California, Riverside reports that adolescents have high prevalence of alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use, and concerning rates of suicide - related thoughts and behaviors.

A new study by researchers at Dartmouth has found that adolescents living in medical marijuana states with a plethora of dispensaries are more likely to have tried new methods of cannabis use, such as edibles and vaping, at a younger age than those living in states with fewer dispensaries.

«Our findings suggest that prevention and intervention efforts may benefit from targeting depressive symptoms and alcohol and marijuana use to potentially reduce adolescent use of SCs.»

Choo continued, «This adds to a growing body of literature published over the past three years that is remarkably consistent in demonstrating that state medical marijuana policies do not have a downstream effect on adolescent drug use, as we feared they might.»

The findings showed that although marijuana use in the previous 30 days was more prevalent in states that enacted medical marijuana laws than those that did not, rates of adolescent marijuana use did not increase after these laws were introduced.

In this study, Dr Deborah Hasin, Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA and colleagues examined the relationship between the legalisation of medical marijuana and adolescent marijuana use by analysing national «Monitoring the Future» survey data * from over one million students in the 8th, 10th, and 12th grades (aged 13 - 18) between 1991 and 2014 — a period when 21 contiguous states passed laws allowing marijuana use for medical purposes.

Parents and physicians concerned about an increase in adolescents» marijuana use following the legalization of medical marijuana can breathe a sigh of relief.

Opponents of medical marijuana argue that such laws increase recreational marijuana use among adolescents, while advocates contend that medical marijuana helps to address the US opioid crisis by reducing overdose deaths.

The study, published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal showed no significant difference in adolescent marijuana use in 21 states with medical marijuana laws before or after implementation of these laws.

A new study showed no significant difference in adolescent marijuana use in 21 states with medical marijuana laws before or after implementation of these laws.

Using juvenile and adolescent mice, Jeffrey Edwards and colleagues investigated the effects of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the chemical in marijuana responsible for its effects on cognition and behavior, on VTA GABA cells, an understudied inhibitory cell type in the reward system that regulates dopamine levels.

«Many adolescents and young adults who are at high risk for psychosis smoke marijuana regularly or have a cannabis use disorder,» said Margaret Haney, PhD, professor of neurobiology (in Psychiatry) at CUMC and senior author of the paper.

A number of other factors increased the risk of adolescent lifetime smoking and nicotine dependence, including parent education, marital status, quality of parenting, and adolescent beliefs about the risk of smoking, perceptions of schoolmates» smoking, marijuana use, and mental health.

What we may not be aware is that Rhode Island adolescents rank 5 th in the nation in self - reported marijuana use with nearly one quarter of high school students report using marijuana (YRBS 2015 data).

Other studies have found that greater frequency of parental monitoring in the home is associated with somewhat less frequent cigarette, alcohol, and marijuana use among adolescents (Chilcoat & Anthony, 1996; Kafka & London, 1991; Resnick et al., 1997).

We are working to ensure that revenue from the sale of recreational marijuana goes to support evidence based and evidence informed adolescent substance use prevention and education programs and services.

Results showed that, compared to GC cases, BSFT cases showed significantly greater pre - to post-intervention improvement in parent reports of adolescent conduct problems and delinquency, adolescent reports of marijuana use, and observer ratings and self - reports of family functioning.

Abstract: This study examined the moderating effect of big - five based personality types on the relation between sensation seeking and three adolescent marijuana use outcomes (lifetime use, current use, attraction to marijuana use).

Alcohol and marijuana use trajectories in a diverse longitudinal sample of adolescents: examining use patterns from age 11 to 17 years.

Adolescents in both of the family therapy conditions (FFT and joint CBT / FFT) had significant reductions in heavy marijuana use from pretreatment to the 4 - month assessment, and this reduction persisted until the 7 - month assessment.

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Living with father increases the risk of Hispanic / Latino adolescents engaging in marijuana use.

The relationships of parental alcohol versus tobacco and marijuana use with early adolescent onset of alcohol use.

Similarly, the frequencies of adolescents» cigarette use, heavy episodic drinking, and marijuana use were strongly related to the proportion of their friends who used illegal substances.

In prior work we used a longitudinal design to test whether the interaction between internalizing and externalizing symptoms in early adolescence (11 — 12 years old) predicted adolescent alcohol and drug use (a composite of cigarette, marijuana, and other illicit SU) 2 years later (Scalco et al. 2014).

Internalizing problems in the absence of externalizing problems protected adolescents against cigarette and marijuana use.

Once an adolescent chooses to use marijuana or alcohol, it is possible that other more proximal cognitive, social, or biological factors influence escalation of amount of use.

«Religiosity, Peer Influence, and Adolescent Marijuana Use: A Panel Study of Underlying Causal Structures.»

Proximal and time - varying effects of cigarette, alcohol, marijuana and other hard drug use on adolescent dating aggression