Cannabis mobile apps: A content analysis

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Ramo, Danielle E ^c   Popova, Lucy ^b   Grana, Rachel ^b   Zhao, Shirley ^a   Chavez, Kathryn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Cannabis; Cell phones; Mobile apps

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964623783     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.4405     Document Type: Article

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