Furthermore, the number of dispensaries the cities in LA County have so far allowed may not have reached the threshold where their number has had an effect on the marijuana use behaviors of the adolescents who live/attend school there, but as licensing for recreational outlets proceeds the number of dispensaries in many LA County cities […]
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The distance at which both lifetime and recent marijuana use
Proximity to dispensaries in neighborhoods has been shown to have a positive association with more frequent marijuana use among adults , but the effect of proximity to marijuana outlets to schools on adolescent marijuana use is unknown. Research Question #4 was: “Is the effect of dispensary bans on student marijuana use dependent on the distance of […]
The outcome variables were self-reported student lifetime and recent marijuana use
The independent variable was whether or not a city had a dispensary ban and was determined by the city policy that was in effect when the count of dispensaries per city was obtained in September 2016. The research question was broken up into three testable hypotheses: H2.1) there is a direct relationship between city dispensary […]
The extent to which these two measures may differ is dependent on enforcement
Visual cues to marijuana use such as billboard and magazine advertising for cannabis are strongly associated with adolescents’ intentions to use marijuana and eventual use . The presence of dispensaries may be analogous to advertising because many dispensaries in LA County use their exterior walls as advertising space like any other store . It is […]
Marijuana is comprised of the dried flowers and leaves of the Cannabis Sativa plant
Each business included in the analyses was verified as being in active operation via phone calls, checking WeedMaps message boards for current ratings and comments, and by whether a dispensary was photographed at that location using Google Street View. Once verified as being active, the address of each storefront was geocoded using geographic information systems software […]
Participant CESD scores were not associated with frequency of marijuana use or cigarette use
Two hundred adolescents were consented into the study and completed the baseline visit. Of those, 28 denied smoking cigarettes in the past 30 days and 7 declined to answer the question about marijuana use and were thus excluded from the analysis. The resulting sample had a mean age of 16.1 years and was racially diverse, with 28% […]
It requires an extended commitment to both political activism and direct action
Political process theory sprang from resource mobilization in the 1970s . It provided the dominant framework for U.S. sociologists throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and into the 1990s . Essentially, political process theory emphasizes the importance of political, legal, and cultural contexts in shaping the outcomes that social movements achieve. Many of the insights and concepts of […]
Our findings suggest that SHS should be avoided whether the source is tobacco or marijuana
The mechanism by which tobacco smoke impairs endothelial function, and by extension, how marijuana smoke exerts similar effects, is incompletely understood. Chronic exposure to tobacco smoke results in changes in the serum that can directly lower the activity of endothelial nitric oxide synthase in cultured endothelial cells, thereby lowering the production of nitric oxide, in […]
Marijuana users also engage in other behaviors that are associated with poor outcomes
Marijuana smoking, the predominant method of use, causes a 5-fold increase in the blood carboxyhemoglobin level and a 3-fold increment in the quantity of tar inhaled compared with tobacco . Studies on secondhand marijuana smoke have found endothelial dysfunction in rats after exposure . Given the myriad ways in which marijuana might potentiate vascular disease, […]
ZSFG is the county hospital for San Francisco and serves an economically disadvantaged population
The participants came from two studies, including 686 adolescents or young adults between 12 and 21 years old, who received care at the Children’s Health Center at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital Center . The study was conducted from 2013 to 2014, prior to the legalization of recreational marijuana in California. Adolescents attending the CHC in […]