Thursday, April 08, 2021

Billboard and storefront ads for cannabis linked to problematic use in teens


https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-04/joso-bas040221.php

 

News Release 8-Apr-2021
Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

 

Adolescents who frequently see billboard or storefront advertisements for recreational cannabis are more likely to use the drug weekly and to have symptoms of a cannabis use disorder, according to a new study in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.

Despite use being illegal for those below age 21 even in states that have approved recreational marijuana, "legalization may alter the ways that youth use cannabis," write the study authors, led by Pamela J. Trangenstein, Ph.D., M.P.H., of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


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tags: drug use, drug abuse,

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