In other words, workforce participation at age 23 is associated with lower marijuana-use rate over subsequent years for both males and females. This finding supports key concepts from the life-course theory which emphasizes salient life events such as employment or marriage to explain both continuity in childhood deviant behavior and changes during the life-course, and highlights […]
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Substance use data were self-report and subject to recall bias
Education efforts about the adverse impact marijuana use can have on depression are needed, with a focus on subgroups at risk for poor outcome. Together, our results warrant replication and indicate a need for providers to ask depressed patients about their marijuana use, to inform those using marijuana of its potential risks and determine treatment needs. […]
This study was intended to inform local policy and practice in regulating marijuana to prevent youth
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 […]
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 […]