To characterize the relationship between marijuana and tobacco use among young adults, the present study used a national online survey to examine whether heavier marijuana use was associated with greater cigarette use . We also sought to examine whether marijuana use was associated with differences in the likelihood of a past-year tobacco quit attempt. Furthermore,…
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Mis-use in this study was defined as frequent as well as the over-use of marijuana by adolescents
The lack of a clear federal public health response to the growing legalization of marijuana and proliferation of promarijuana marketing has left a vacuum that is filled by commercial interests . Unlike the tobacco industry, the marijuana industry has remained largely unchallenged by a coordinated regulatory response, and is aggressively advertising its product in states…
There was significant variability in intercept and slope growth factors across all outcomes
California became the first state to pass a comprehensive medical marijuana law in 1996, and as of 2017, 29 states in the United States and Washington, DC have legalized marijuana for medical purposes. Recent high-quality epidemiological studies have examined changes in overall marijuana use rates among adolescents before and after the passage of medical marijuana legalization…
Our social world is fraught with the complexities of issues that comprise a multitude of factors
Note that, for this section of the results, items were evaluated by group according to act/issue. That is, the questions about marijuana use were analyzed together, the questions about stealing were analyzed together, and the questions about purchasing music were analyzed together. Because there were no parallel questions to item 4a in the stealing and…
The social domain an issue is judged to be classified within in turn inform one’s evaluation of the issue
Research has shown that the domain an evaluator considers to be relevant to an issue is/are contingent upon the informational assumptions held by that individual . In the present investigation, informational assumptions were examined to see if they are relevant to understanding differences between individuals’ judgments of non-prototypical social issues. Research discussed in Turiel et…