Is the Legalization of Marijuana Associated With Its Use by Adolescents?
Is the Legalization of Marijuana Associated With Its Use by Adolescents?
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大麻合法化与青少年吸食大麻有关吗？
DOI：
10.1080/10826084.2016.1223139
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发表时间：
2017
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2
通讯作者：
Wahlstrom,Lindsey
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作者：
Schinke,Steven;Schwinn,Traci;Hopkins,Jessica;Gorroochurn,Prakash;Wahlstrom,Lindsey
背景资料：在美国，对成人使用大麻的法律越来越宽松，这引起了人们对青少年使用大麻的同时增加的担忧。目的：本研究收集并分析了美国各州大麻合法化状况与青少年大麻使用之间关系的原始数据。来自美国48个州和哥伦比亚特区的1,310名青少年通过社交网站和青年服务社区机构招募，报告了他们使用大麻的情况。青少年的使用率进行了比较，与大麻合法化的地位，青少年的居住states of residence.Results：研究结果未能显示青少年使用大麻和国家法律有关大麻的使用之间的关系。研究发现，年长的年轻人、女性和非西班牙裔年轻人使用大麻的比例增加。青少年的父母完成2年或以上的大学不太可能报告大麻的使用比那些父母完成不到2年的college.Conclusions：虽然研究结果不支持预测的青少年大麻的使用越来越多的国家与自由化的成人使用法律，进一步监测青少年的使用更大，更有代表性的样本是必要的。
Background: Growing moves in the U.S. toward relaxed laws surrounding adult use of marijuana raise concerns about concurrent increases in adolescent use of marijuana.Objectives: This study collected and analyzed primary data on the relationship between marijuana legalization status in U.S. states and adolescents' marijuana use.Methods: Recruited through social networking sites and youth-services community agencies, a sample of 1,310 adolescents from 48 U.S. states and the District of Columbia reported their use of marijuana. Youths' use rates were compared with the marijuana legalization status of youths' states of residence.Results: Study findings failed to show a relationship between adolescents' use of marijuana and state laws regarding marijuana use. Relationships were found for increased marijuana use by older youths, females, and non-Hispanic youths. Youths whose parents completed 2 or more years of college were less likely to report marijuana use than those whose parents completed fewer than 2 years of college.Conclusions: Albeit study findings do not support predictions of growing marijuana use by adolescents in states with liberalized adult use laws, further monitoring of adolescents' use with larger and more representative samples is needed.