Social anxiety, cannabis use motives, and social context's impact on willingness to use cannabis

E Garrison, C Gilligan, BO Ladd… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Social anxiety is often purported to be a risk factor for increased cannabis use. Cannabis
use motives are strong explanatory predictors of cannabis use embedded within social …

The importance of psychology for shaping legal cannabis regulation.

JT Borodovsky, MJ Sofis, RA Grucza… - Experimental and …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Different patterns of cannabis use can be traced directly back to different interactions
between 2 types of variables: pharmacological and environmental. As legal cannabis …

Cannabis use in persons with inflammatory bowel disease and vulnerability to substance misuse

TM Hansen, BC Sabourin, B Oketola… - Inflammatory Bowel …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background It is unknown whether cannabis users self-medicating their inflammatory bowel
disease (IBD) symptoms are more likely to have comorbid mental health or personality risk …

Are COVID-19 health-related and socioeconomic stressors associated with increases in cannabis use in individuals who use cannabis for recreational purposes?

S Sznitman, D Rosenberg, N Lewis - Substance Abuse, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic and associated public health measures implemented
to mitigate transmission may increase stress, which, in turn, can be associated with changes …

Getting high or getting by? An examination of cannabis motives, cannabis misuse, and concurrent psychopathology in a sample of general community adults

ML Scarfe, C Muir, K Rowa, I Balodis… - … abuse: research and …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
OBJECTIVE: Few studies have examined cannabis motives in adults and, although
associations between cannabis use and psychiatric conditions are well documented, there …

Motives, frequency, and consequences of cannabis use among college students

A Espinosa, LM Ruglass, FN Conway… - Journal of Drug …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
We investigated profiles of cannabis use motives among current cannabis-consuming
college students. Then we assessed profile differences in demographic characteristics …

Delta-8-and delta-9-THC use frequency, use motives, and mental health outcomes

MJ Pellicane, ME Quinn, CAL Bean… - … of psychoactive drugs, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Use of delta-8-THC (“delta-8”) has proliferated after the passage of the 2018
Farm Bill. Yet, research on the mental health effects of this increasingly popular cannabinoid …

Young adults with higher motives and expectancies of regular cannabis use show poorer psychosocial functioning

D Amiet, GJ Youssef, LJ Hagg, V Lorenzetti… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Background: Young adults regularly using cannabis represent a uniquely vulnerable yet
heterogeneous cohort. Few studies have examined user profiles using cannabis use …

Cannabis use, use motives and cannabis use disorder among Berlin college students

H Naegele, F Betzler, L Viohl… - Journal of Drug …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This study described cannabis use behavior among college students in Berlin, in particular,
differences in use motives between subjects with frequent use and those with signs of …

Differential Mechanisms of Behavior Change in Cannabis Use Disorder Treatments: Functional Improvements and Clinical Implications

BM Stone, KM Gray, RL Tomko… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Research on the mechanisms of behavior change (MOBC) for the treatment of cannabis use
disorder (CUD) has limitations due to an overemphasis on abstinence, rigid definitions, and …