A web-based survey that masked participants’ identity was determined to be the most suitable approach given that in-person interviews were limited by legal restrictions on UC researchers visiting cannabis farms, and mail or telephone surveys were constrained by the lack of any readily available mailing address or telephone contact information for most cannabis growers, who […]
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Cannabis use also increases the perception of poor health above and beyond cigarette smoking and other relevant factors
With the majority of U.S.states having adopted legislation to medically and/or recreationally legalize cannabis, the already high prevalence of cannabis use is expected to further increase nationwide, especially among existing users.States that allow the legal use of cannabis for medicinal purposes have higher rates of cannabis use and cannabis use disorder in national survey data and specifically within the […]
The INCSR narrative explores a wide range of countries
Cannabis prohibition laws were initially established in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through disparate national drug control initiatives.Over the course of the nineteenth century, cannabis medical uses were regulated in a patchwork manner as part of wider legal frameworks governing the production and sale of pharmaceuticals. In the US, cannabis use began to […]
Cannabis use has also been associated with abuse of other illicit substances
According to the NASEM report, there is a moderate level of evidence of a statistical association between cannabis use and the development of substance dependence and/or substance abuse disorder for alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs.Multiple cohort studies have demonstrated these results.Four separate discordant twin studies have found that the twin who used marijuana was more […]
Distance to ocean provides a summary measure of the coastal environment of the farm
The cannabis industry has historically resisted widespread farm consolidation, perhaps due to its status as an unregulated, and illicit or semi-licit, activity. While the amount of cannabis produced in California is substantial , evidence from 2016 suggests that most outdoor cannabis was then produced on farms smaller than one acre . When Proposition 64 legalized […]
Our inability to incorporate cannabis home delivery is an important limitation of this study
Methods for operationalizing access to cannabis delivery remain undeveloped, but cannabis delivery constitutes a growing portion of the retail market, a pattern accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic.Given that most jurisdictions banning outlets also ban delivery businesses, the associations we have observed may be relevant to delivery businesses as well, but this should be evaluated empirically […]
A fairly large amount of work can be found on animal models of adolescent cannabis exposure
Similar to findings by Lopez-Larson discussed above, the concept of deleterious effects related to early initiation of cannabis has been explored in the neuroimaging literature as well. According to Wilson and colleagues , individuals reporting marijuana use prior to age 17 demonstrated decreased whole brain and cortical gray matter in addition to increased percent white […]
Should cannabis production be allowed in cities and in unincorporated towns？
Understanding this dynamic is important for local governments as they develop land use policies to govern when, where and how much cannabis production is permissible . Cannabis production’s effects on neighbors is an important point for local government officials to consider as they develop and adopt new policies to encourage the transition of black-market cannabis […]
The general population may support the legalization of recreational cannabis for a variety of reasons
There are many rare social facts, but some become pathological based due to their infrequency, and others do not. Why is that so? To tailor the Durkheimian theory and make it more suitable for my empirical analysis, I incorporate Mary Douglas’s idea of pollution and power. Rather than speaking about pathological forms, Douglas focuses on marginal […]
Amygdala activation was lower to both negative and positive words in heavy users compared with controls
Average beta weights from eight clusters showing a significant difference between groups were extracted using MarsBaR and imported into IBM SPSS Statistics v22 for further analysis.In addition,amygdala activation was examined based on a prior study of marijuana use and emotional processing.A mask of left and right amygdala was created using the automated anatomical labeling atlas in Wake Forest University […]