The classification of child-appealing was informed by laws in other states and constructed with authors’ own understanding, which may not reflect California lawmakers’ intention or completely align with recently released new regulations. Further, there might be inevitable measurement errors even after two field workers discussed and resolved discrepancies between them. Lastly, this study only gathered data…
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Marijuana is consistently the most widely used illicit drug among adolescents
Additional studies are needed to explore the relationship between marijuana use, alcohol consumption, and inflammation, as well as potential lifestyle modifications to mitigate molecular/epigenetic damage and long-term health risks. Te large study sample and longitudinal nature of CARDIA allowed us to obtain repeated methylation levels and marijuana data, enabling us to explore the association of…
Associations between religiosity and alcohol use may also differ between bisexual and lesbian women
Although religiosity has been found to be protective against hazardous alcohol and drug use in the general population , findings regarding this relationship are mixed in studies with sexual minorities . Understanding factors that may protect against hazardous alcohol and marijuana use is important in the context of persistent sexual identity-related disparities in substance use…
It may be that MDD places individuals at risk for marijuana problems via a similar mechanism
We examined the variance inflation factors for each model to ensure that the degree of multi-collinearity was low. We further incorporated spatial dependence in multilevel logistic regressions to account for potential between-neighborhood correlations. We first constructed the rate of inpatient stays involved with OUD per 1000 population, the rate of inpatient stays involved with opioid overdose…
Marijuana use often co-occurs with mental health problems
Since California has progressive tobacco control policies and recent legalization of marijuana, data on co-use of tobacco and marijuana among AYA in this state would provide evidence from a unique regulatory environment that is likely to represent where the rest of the country may be headed. Using three school-based convenience samples of California AYA ,…
Perhaps marijuana use hinders their ability to follow through with complete abstinence from tobacco
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,…
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…