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Showing 1 to 20 of 191 for “"marijuana"”.
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Essays on Marijuana Legalizations
… we investigate the effect of Recreational marijuana laws (RMLs) on Harder Drug Use and Crime. RMLs, which legalize the possession of small quantities of marijuana for recreational use, have been adopted by 18 states and the District of Columbia. Opponents argue that RML-induced increases in …
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Beyond the Legalization of Marijuana: Economics of Marijuana as a Drug and Herbal Supplement
… into new products. I argue that when marijuana is federally legal, there will be two independent market developments in: i) the cannabis market, which includes botanic cannabis and herbal supplements sold in retail nutrition stores; and ii) the FDA-approved ethical drug market. How …
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Marijuana Users in Their Own Words: Explaining the Continuation and Cessation of Habitual Marijuana Use
… of twenty current and former users of marijuana, using in-depth interviews as the units of analysis. The relationship between the participants’ perceived costs and rewards, type and amount of linguistic accounts used, as well as frequency of use are explored using Homans' exchange …
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Marijuana Demand: An Instrumental Variable Approach
… a cross-section of the US to examine demand for marijuana. State and regional variations in consumption, price and quality are explored. Marijuana tends to be cheapest and of the highest quality in the west. The responsiveness of the demand for marijuana to changes in its price is estimated. The …
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Qualitative Reports Of Michigan Medical Marijuana
… of years of use the medical properties of Marijuana have been marginalized in our society. Qualitative interview data was collected from medical marijuana patients and knowledgeable producers and activists in Michigan about their perceptions and observations on the medical use of marijuana. …
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Depressive Symptoms and Marijuana Outcomes in College Students: The Mediating Role of Protective Behavioral Strategies for Marijuana
… role of protective behavioral strategies for marijuana (PBSM) and marijuana use frequency on the relationships depressive symptoms had with hazardous marijuana use and marijuana-related negative consequences in college students Participants were 338 (50.3% male) undergraduate college students …
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Empirical Modeling Of A Marijuana Expectancy Memory Network In Children As A Function Of Age And Marijuana Use
… and likely memory activation patterns of marijuana expectancies of children across age and marijuana use. The first phase of the study surveyed 142 children to obtain their first associate to marijuana use. From their responses, the Marijuana Expectancy Inventory for Children and …
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Cognitive Biases in Alcohol and Marijuana Users
The current study investigated the influence of marijuana and alcohol consumption and craving on a primed word stem completion (WSC) task. One hundred participants were randomly assigned to one of three prime conditions: Substance-prime, neutral-prime, and no-prime. In the substance- and …
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Consequences of Marijuana Use for Depressive Disorders
… the temporal order in the association between marijuana use and depression. There are two possible hypothesis examined, and for each of them is conducted a separate set of analyses. The dependent variable in the first hypothesis is current depression, predicted by previous and current marijuana …
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Perceptions and Attitudes of Healthcare Students Towards Marijuana
<p>Perceptions of marijuana were studied in healthcare students at EWU. It was found that most students had an average self-reported knowledge of marijuana use. Marijuana comes in several forms such as, edibles, smoked, patches, and lotions. With its recent legalization in Washington State, sales …
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Characteristics of Marijuana Users Compared to Multiple Drug Users
… between subjects whose only illicit drug use is marijuana and those who use both marijuana and other drugs. Data are from the DRUGNET study (1996, 1998, 1999), a multi-panel study conducted over the internet from 1996 - 1998. This sample was predominately white, male, young, and college educated. …
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Sibling Influence on Adolescent Cigarette, Alcohol, and Marijuana Use
… drug use and adolescent alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use. Research is conducted using survey data from a probability sample of 4,987 adolescents in grades 9–12 in Utah. To account for the limited frequency of drug use among respondents, Poisson regression is used to estimate models for each …
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Situational Marijuana Use: Predicting Outcomes in Treatment-Seeking Adults
… The present study described situational use of marijuana in dependent individuals, analyzed relationships among various constructs in existing theory, determined their effects on treatment outcomes, and explored interactions with self-efficacy. Results were generally consistent with hypotheses. …
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The association between parental marijuana use and mother-child interactions
Little is known about parents who use marijuana even though it is the most commonly used illicit substance in the world (Cooper & Haney, 2014). Previous research has shown negative outcomes for children of parents who use illicit substances (Kelley, Lawrence, Milletich, Hollis, & Henson, 2015; …
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Evaluation of a Web-based Intervention for College Marijuana Use
<p>Young adults in college have high rates of marijuana use, abuse, and dependence. Web-based interventions have been growing in popularity, but their dissemination currently exceeds empirical support. One especially popular (but understudied) program is The Marijuana eCHECKUP TO GO (e-TOKE) for …
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Education Program to Reduce Perioperative Complications in Chronic Marijuana Users
… anesthetics to patients who chronically use marijuana. The goal is to decrease perioperative complications and improve patient outcomes by equipping anesthesia providers with the tools they need to anticipate the potential complications associated with marijuana use.Background: With the …
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Role of Perceived Access and Harm in Marijuana Use Among Adolescents
… in alcohol use among students. However, student marijuana use was not impacted as positively. This interdependence between the use of alcohol and marijuana has been reported in the literature, but the role of cognitive factors has not been adequately studied. The current study examined the role …
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