43.4 Cannabis Legalization and Adolescent Other Substance Use

Bhatia, Devika; Mikulich, Susan K.; Sakai, Joseph T.

doi:10.1016/j.jaac.2021.09.326

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“…While a paper by Shi et al (2015) suggested that cannabis liberalization is significantly associated with higher odds of adolescent cannabis use, Stevens (2019) shows that the paper relies upon omitting inconvenient outliers and insufficient predictive models. Consistent findings where cannabis is legal suggest no significant increase in adolescent cannabis use (Dilley et al, 2019;Haines-Saah and Fischer, 2021;Nguyen and Mital, 2022).…”

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Cannabis, research ethics, and a duty of care

Wheeldon

Heidt

2023

Research Ethics

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Despite growing evidence to the contrary, researchers continue to posit causal links between cannabis, crime, psychosis, and violence. These spurious connections are rooted in history and fueled decades of structural limitations that shaped how researchers studied cannabis. Until recently, research in this area was explicitly funded to link cannabis use and harm and ignore any potential benefits. Post-prohibition cannabis research has failed to replicate the dire findings of the past. This article outlines how the history of controlling cannabis research has led to various harms, injustices, and ethical complications. We compare commonly cited research from both the prohibition and post-prohibition eras and argue that many popular claims about the dangers of cannabis are the result of ethical lapses by researchers, journals, and funders. We propose researchers in this area adopt a duty of care in cannabis research going forward. This would oblige individual researchers to establish robust research designs, employ careful analytic strategies, and acknowledge limitations in more detail. This duty involves the institutional recognition by funders, journals, and others that cannabis research has been deliberately misconstrued to criminalize, stigmatize, and pathologize.

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Section: On Eras Of Cannabis Researchmentioning

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Cannabis, research ethics, and a duty of care

Wheeldon

Heidt

2023

Research Ethics

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“…Besides zoning, research has pointed towards the assumed societal or neighbourhood burdens for describing marijuana facilities as LULUs. These perceived burdens generally include increased marijuana use in youth (Haines-Saah and Fischer, 2021), decreased property values (Thomas and Tian, 2021) and fears of crime (McComas, 2016).…”

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Burden or benefit: Is retail marijuana facility siting influenced by LULU- or gentrification-related neighbourhood characteristics?

Baker

2023

Urban Studies

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As legal marijuana is emerging as an important component of cities across the United States, it is important to understand the factors that contribute to legal marijuana facility siting. Although land use and zoning are expected to determine where commercial marijuana facilities are located, if residential characteristics also enter siting considerations, some neighbourhoods may either bear the burden of undesired facilities or reap the benefits of legal marijuana, underscoring equitable considerations in marijuana facility siting. Thus, this study examines how neighbourhood change associated with locally unwanted land uses and gentrification influences the amount of retail marijuana facilities across three US cities: Denver, Colorado; Portland, Oregon; and Seattle, Washington. Using a series of Poisson-related regressions, this study finds that neighbourhood residential characteristics influence retail marijuana facilities in ways exceeding siting restrictions alone, like zoning. Notably, quantitative results suggest that there are fewer retail marijuana facilities in neighbourhoods experiencing locally unwanted land use-related change than non-locally unwanted land use neighbourhoods in Denver and Seattle; and more retail marijuana facilities in gentrified compared to non-gentrified neighbourhoods in Denver. Overall, these findings advance understanding of the connection between legal marijuana and neighbourhood changes and aim to influence guidelines for integrating legal marijuana facilities into communities.

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“…However, most of the research on post-liberalisation drug use agrees that adolescents are the demographic whose use most clearly tends to remain stable after the policy change. In the United States and Canada, studies have found evidence of moderate increases in adult but not adolescent use after cannabis decriminalisation ( Haines-Saah & Fischer, 2021 ; Hall & Lynskey, 2020 ; Hasin & Walsh, 2021 ; Health Canada, 2022 ; Leung et al, 2018 ; Montgomery et al, 2022 ; O’Grady et al, 2022 ; Rubin-Kahana et al, 2022 ; Sarvet et al, 2018 ), while studies on the international level have often tended to find no overall association between policy regime and cannabis use ( Gabri et al, 2022 ; Hughes et al, 2018 ; Kotlaja & Carson, 2019 ; Laqueur et al, 2020 ). Furthermore, most studies have not found evidence of increasing post-liberalisation abuse or dependence ( Cabral, 2017 ; Fischer et al, 2021 ; Martins et al, 2021 ; Mauro et al, 2019 ; Myran et al, 2023 ; Williams et al, 2017 ).…”

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Why are the police against drug policy liberalisation?

Johnstad

2023

Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

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43.4 Cannabis Legalization and Adolescent Other Substance Use

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Cannabis, research ethics, and a duty of care

Cannabis, research ethics, and a duty of care

Burden or benefit: Is retail marijuana facility siting influenced by LULU- or gentrification-related neighbourhood characteristics?

Why are the police against drug policy liberalisation?

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