Prevalence and use of cannabis products and routes of administration among youth and young adults in Canada and the United States: A systematic review

E Wadsworth, S Craft, R Calder, D Hammond - Addictive behaviors, 2022 - Elsevier
Background The current systematic review aimed to summarize the literature on the
prevalence of routes of administration and cannabis products used among youth and young …

[HTML][HTML] Relationships of cannabis policy liberalization with alcohol use and co-use with cannabis: A narrative review

RL Pacula, R Smart, MC Lira, SC Pessar… - Alcohol research …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
PURPOSE The liberalization of cannabis policies has the potential to affect the use of other
substances and the harms from using them, particularly alcohol. Although a previous review …

Heroin use cannot be measured adequately with a general population survey

P Reuter, JP Caulkins, G Midgette - Addiction, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Globally, heroin and other opioids account for more than half of deaths and
years‐of‐life‐lost due to drug use and comprise one of the four major markets for illegal …

[HTML][HTML] Trends in youth cannabis use across cannabis legalization: data from the COMPASS prospective cohort study

AME Zuckermann, KV Battista, RE Bélanger… - Preventive medicine …, 2021 - Elsevier
Canada legalized recreational cannabis use for adults on October 17, 2018 with decision-
makers emphasising the need to reduce cannabis use among youth. We sought to …

Cannabis decriminalization and racial disparity in arrests for cannabis possession

C Gunadi, Y Shi - Social Science & Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Rationale Minorities often bear the brunt of unequal enforcement of drug laws. In the US,
Blacks have been disproportionately more likely to be arrested for cannabis possession than …

Association of recreational cannabis legalization with cannabis possession arrest rates in the US

C Gunadi, Y Shi - JAMA network open, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Recreational cannabis legalization (RCL) has been advocated as a way to
reduce the number of individuals interacting with the US criminal justice system; in theory …

Sex differences in the relationship between early adverse childhood experiences, delinquency, and substance use initiation in high-risk adolescents

JM Gajos, L Leban, BB Weymouth… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been linked to a host of subsequent negative
health and behavioral problems. However, the role of sex in the ramifications of early ACEs …

Adolescent cannabis use during a period of rapid policy change: evidence from the PATH study

MM Orsini, M Vuolo, BC Kelly - Journal of Adolescent Health, 2023 - Elsevier
Purpose To determine whether shifts in various state-level cannabis policies are associated
with individual-level changes in adolescent cannabis use following implementation …

Crime in a time of cannabis: Estimating the effect of legalizing marijuana on crime rates in Colorado and Washington using the synthetic control method

AJ Harper, C Jorgensen - Journal of Drug Issues, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The legalization of marijuana for recreational use continues to expand across America.
Colorado and Washington were the first states to legalize marijuana in 2012. A primary …

Examining the effects of legalizing marijuana in Colorado and Washington on clearance rates: A quasi-experimental design

C Jorgensen, AJ Harper - Journal of experimental criminology, 2020 - Springer
Objective This study follows the lead of Makin et al.(Police Quarterly 22 (1): 31–55, 2019)
who found that marijuana legalization is associated with a marginal increase in clearance …