Medical marijuana laws and adolescent marijuana use in the USA from 1991 to 2014: Results from annual, repeated cross-sectional surveys

The Lancet Psychiatry

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 601-608

  Hasin, Deborah S ^a,b,c   Wall, Melanie ^a,b,c   Keyes, Katherine M ^a   Cerdá, Magdalena ^a   Schulenberg, John ^e   O'Malley, Patrick M ^e   Galea, Sandro ^a   Pacula, Rosalie ^f,g   Feng, Tianshu ^d  

^a Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^g NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL CANNABIS;

ABSENTEEISM; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANNABIS USE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LAW; PERCEPTION; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STATUS; SUBSTANCE USE; UNITED STATES; CANNABIS SMOKING; FEMALE; MALE; MARIJUANA ABUSE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARIJUANA ABUSE; MARIJUANA SMOKING; MEDICAL MARIJUANA; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84937515036     PISSN: 22150366     EISSN: 22150374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(15)00217-5     Document Type: Article

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