Recent users of CBD, e-cigarettes, and cigarettes were more likely to have an abnormal mental health screen by PHQ-4 compared to nonusers. CBD users were more likely than nonusers to have a severe score on the PHQ-4, report depressive symptoms on the PHQ-4, but there was no difference in anxiety symptoms. E-cigarette and cigarette users…
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Associations between religiosity and alcohol use may also differ between bisexual and lesbian women
Marijuana commonly “mellows out” its users where violent acts are not carried out; this would indicate the main source of crime is a direct result of drug trafficking, not consumption. However, the crimes come from acquiring the drug and its suppliers. A main source of marijuana comes from Mexico as a result of the plant’s…
Non-cigarette tobacco product use has increased among young adults in the past several years
All told, this study moves the needle on what is known about how measures of perceived general and specific risks and benefits correlate with each other as well as with measures of perceived prevalence, willingness, and behavioral intentions, and the comparative predictive utility of these constructs. Including a comprehensive range of conventional and newer tobacco…
For sedentary behavior the survey measures of intentions and discussion behavior were added
Attachment styles were not targeted by the tools for several reasons. First, Studies 1 and 2 demonstrated the stronger relevance of parenting styles as compared with attachment styles in dynamics influencing discussion motivations. In Study 1, attachment styles did not demonstrate significance with the model aims, while in Study 2, parenting styles were as or…
Worry positively predicted intentions and willingness to discuss marijuana use with children
The first process operates on a conceptual level by involving perceptions of risks as primary determinants of intentions in risk-altering behavior . Perceived risk is a subjective judgment about the severity of harmful consequence of an action, whereas intentions refer to a deliberate plan to engage in the behavior . The second process operates on a…
Authoritarian parents tend to restrict autonomy and practice strict punishment
This low representation of smoking-related twitter topics likely was impacted by the methodology of data collection and its associated limitations . Of the 34 smoking-related keywords used to query the Twitter API, eight returned over 100 tweets from college campuses during this time period: cigarette , dip , joint , njoy , pipe , smoke…
The 1-mile buffer has been frequently used to represent a walkable distance to tobacco and alcohol outlets
Adolescents’ marijuana use is associated with adverse neurobehavioral and health effects from adolescence through adulthood. According to the Monitoring the Future study, secondary- and high-school students reported increasing trends in past-year and past-month marijuana use in the past decade . These trends coincided with the increasing recreational marijuana legalization and commercialization in the US since 2012. Emerging…
These regulations have the potential to ensure that there is some demand for non-GM grain
Increasing chemical use, in conjunction with growing weed resistance and limited options for chemical weed control, has raised costs and depleted the bottom line for many rice producers in California. Many of the restrictions on farm chemical use can be traced to growing recognition of environmental externalities from chemicals used on the land and political…
On-farm research and pilot farms allow for more effective and quicker implementation on a farm level
In addition to labor costs, labor shortages have also been a long-standing trend in California agriculture as American agriculture increasingly competes with Mexican farms for farm labor . This structural shift in the labor pool has caused fewer workers to be available for low-skill, low-wage agricultural jobs. Furthermore, human labor also is time-consuming and error-prone,…
It is beyond the scope of this study to determine exactly at what penetration rates things change
The shorter charging times enabled by Level 3 charging, while convenient and possibly economically motivated, introduce significantly more variance in emissions results. The authors of this work believe that much more attention to DCFC load growth and charge management in terms of research, financial justification, and policy planning is warranted. In Phase I, where we…