Nucci and Turiel explain that, during this period of life, individuals expand their ability to recognize and incorporate multiple, and at times conflicting, aspects of a single issue to form their judgments and conclusions. In order to illustrate this complexity of thought and offer insight into how adolescents conceptualize the issue, this study examined adolescents’ […]
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The items on the survey were designed to address participants’ reasoning about marijuana use
Additional research evidence for adolescents’ multi-faceted reasoning about ambiguous social issues such as substance use was conducted by Shaw, Amsel and Schillo . They investigated late adolescents’ domain reasoning when presented with hypothetical scenarios involving risk-taking behaviors and by asking respondents to justify engagement or lack thereof in the behavior/activity. It was found that 84% […]
The report of higher levels of support in our survey could be explained by several factors
As research continues, it will be important to include underrepresented populations as patterns of use for medical purposes may differ by socioeconomic status, race, and access to medical care. Despite the lack of evidence on the efficacy of marijuana use for health conditions, nearly half of those who disclosed medical marijuana use to their doctors […]
GfK created a representative sample of US adults by random sampling of addresses
However, most published studies have focused only on adolescents under the age of 18 years and do not reflect the adult population to which medical marijuana policies apply . Therefore, long-term longitudinal studies are needed to monitor the effects of marijuana legalization, marijuana initiation/ re-initiation, cigarette initiation/ reinitiation, and patterns of co-use across all age […]
Occipital deactivations are thought to relate to perceptual priming as information is reprocessed
To assess volume of activation within posterior parietal and left prefrontal ROIs, we calculated the number voxels showing significantly greater activation during SWM relative to vigilance for each participant within each ROI. We then performed regression analyses to predict volume of activation from age, gender, and their interaction. To determine whether movement during fMRI scanning might […]
Public hearings were subsequently held to elicit further public perspectives
After further review, involving the Planning Commission and additional public hearings, the county voted to permit marijuana production and processing establishments if they complied with notice provisions and strict zoning restrictions. On the eastern side of Washington state, the Spokane County Commission imposed a moratorium on outdoor marijuana farms in November 2016, because of residential complaints about […]
The risk pathway from anhedonia to marijuana use may be incremental to risk of other drug use
Although we report complete data for all analyses, meta analyses of cross-sectional studies examining cough, sputum production, and wheezing were limited by heterogeneity. Heterogeneity was likely related to the lack of uniform assessment of marijuana use and outcome ascertainment . Our current understanding of the long-term health effects of marijuana could be improved by standardized […]
The mechanisms for the causal connections between marijuana and OPR are not clear
It appears that the gaps in hospitalizations involving marijuana dependence and abuse were continuously widened between the states adopting and non-adopting medical marijuana policies with states adopting medical marijuana policies increased more sharply. Throughout the study period, the states with medical marijuana policies continuously had higher rates of hospitalizations related to opioid dependence or abuse. […]
We also conducted sensitivity analyses for different classification of marijuana use
Participants were invited to participate in 9 in-person clinic examinations over the study period . We used data from the first seven visits, up to year 20, as ECG measures were available at baseline, visit Year 7, and 20. Each participant who attended the examination received non-monetary gifts and monetary reimbursement to cover expenses. All […]
Field census is typically considered the gold standard in retail outlet research
Current research indicates that secondhand marijuana smoke contains many of the same chemicals as secondhand tobacco smoke and some in greater concentrations with recent studies demonstrating that secondhand marijuana smoke has negative cardiovascular effects similar to tobacco smoke.Non-smokers exposed to secondhand marijuana smoke had detectable levels of THC and metabolites, with levels increasing when higher potency […]