Sentences with phrase «early use of marijuana»

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Aside from technology, the company is also expected to benefit from a contract it landed with the Ontario government, which said earlier this week that it would use Shopify's e-commerce platform for cannabis sales online and in stores as part of its plan to be the province's sole distributor of legal recreational marijuana.

As POLITICO New York reported earlier this month, State Sen. Diane Savino is introducing legislation that aims to better educate doctors on the use of medical marijuana, similar to how representatives for pharmaceutical companies showcase their product to physicians.

One of the cables released in September 2011 by wikileaks, the respected senior journalist, Mr. Kwesi Pratt was reported to have confirmed Akufo - Addo's drug used to US intelligence officials, noting that it is not uncommon to see Akufo - Addo surrounded by a thick clouds of smoke from marijuana early morning.

On the issues: The Siena Poll found strong support for the Child Victims Act, for Early Voting, the Dream Act & Roe v Wade; and that a small majority supports legalizing the recreational use of marijuana.

«Other research shows that psychiatric disorders earlier in childhood are strong predictors of marijuana use later on,» Grucza said.

By participants» early 30s, their marijuana use had declined, but a gap between the two groups remained: Slightly more than 16 percent of parents said they smoked pot in the past year, while 31 percent of nonparents reported the same.

This particular study found that marijuana use is associated with early development of psychosis.

The committee reports «substantial evidence» linking early marijuana use with substance abuse later in life and suggesting that cannabis increases the likelihood of respiratory problems, motor vehicle accidents, and low birth weight in infants born to pot - smoking mothers.

«Disparities are occurring as early as high school and therefore it is crucial to address alcohol and marijuana use early on, especially for nonwhite youth,» said Elizabeth D'Amico, lead author of the study and senior behavioral scientist at RAND.

An earlier study by Goodwin and colleagues showed that the use of cannabis by cigarette smokers had increased dramatically over the past two decades to the point where smokers are more than 5 times as likely as nonsmokers to use marijuana daily.

The researchers used data from the long - term Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study, which includes 25 years of repeated measures of marijuana exposure starting in early adulthood.

But it remains unclear whether there are long - term effects from low - intensity or occasional marijuana use earlier in life and whether the magnitude and persistence of impairment depends on the duration of marijuana use or the age of exposure.

Earlier studies that found a link between mental ability and pot smoking have generally looked at a single point in time, raising the possibility that low IQ increases the likelihood of marijuana use, rather than vice versa, Meier says.

Maternal Patterns of Marijuana Use and Early Sexual Behavior in Offspring of Teenage Mothers De Genna, Goldschmidt, & Cornelius (2015) Maternal and Child Health Journal, 19 (12) View Abstract Describes trajectories of marijuana use in teenage mothers and determines if these trajectories were associated with early sexual behavior in their oMarijuana Use and Early Sexual Behavior in Offspring of Teenage Mothers De Genna, Goldschmidt, & Cornelius (2015) Maternal and Child Health Journal, 19 (12) View Abstract Describes trajectories of marijuana use in teenage mothers and determines if these trajectories were associated with early sexual behavior in their offspriUse and Early Sexual Behavior in Offspring of Teenage Mothers De Genna, Goldschmidt, & Cornelius (2015) Maternal and Child Health Journal, 19 (12) View Abstract Describes trajectories of marijuana use in teenage mothers and determines if these trajectories were associated with early sexual behavior in their offspEarly Sexual Behavior in Offspring of Teenage Mothers De Genna, Goldschmidt, & Cornelius (2015) Maternal and Child Health Journal, 19 (12) View Abstract Describes trajectories of marijuana use in teenage mothers and determines if these trajectories were associated with early sexual behavior in their omarijuana use in teenage mothers and determines if these trajectories were associated with early sexual behavior in their offspriuse in teenage mothers and determines if these trajectories were associated with early sexual behavior in their offspearly sexual behavior in their offspring.

Findings suggested that a minority of teenage mothers continue to use marijuana over time and chronic maternal marijuana use across a decade was associated with early sex in offspring.

Early predictors of maturing out of marijuana use among young men.

Findings from a study of CDP also showed significant reductions in alcohol and marijuana use, and in delinquent behaviors (outcome variables which were not examined in earlier studies).

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

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).

The objective of the present study was twofold: first, using latent transition analysis (Lanza et al. 2009), we tested whether the relevant groups found in previous studies (e.g., Flory et al. 2004; Moffitt et al. 2002), i.e., those with an early onset, a late onset, and no onset or low levels of risk behavior could be identified, while using a developmental model of a single, underlying construct (constituted by tobacco, alcohol and marijuana use and externalizing behavior problems).

Although the SURPS personality dimensions demonstrated their usefulness in samples that already were using substances (Conrod et al. 1998; Jackson and Sher 2003; Pulkkinen and Pitkänen 1994; Shall et al. 1992; Sher et al. 2000; Stewart et al. 1995), little attention has been paid to the role of these personality dimensions with regard to the early onset of alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use (Krank et al. 2011; Malmberg et al. 2010b).

In the current study, we extend this prior work by examining whether the interaction between internalizing and externalizing symptoms in early adolescence predict escalation of alcohol and marijuana use during adolescence into young adulthood.

The present study used a longitudinal community sample (N = 387, 55 % female, 83 % White) to test whether externalizing symptoms moderated the relationship between internalizing symptoms and trajectories of alcohol and marijuana use from early (age 11 — 12 years old) to late (age 18 — 19 years old) adolescence.