Legalization of Marijuana for Non-Medical Use: Health, Policy, Socioeconomic, and Nursing Implications

Durkin, Anne

doi:10.3928/02793695-20140721-03

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“…Recent studies suggest adolescent marijuana use may be linked to altered longer-term neurodevelopmental trajectories, compromised neural health, impaired frontal lobe function, and psychosocial effects [ 3 - 8 ]. Additionally, early-onset adolescent marijuana use combined with alcohol and other substance use has been linked to numerous cognitive impairments and neural health effects [ 9 , 10 ]. Social norms favoring many forms of substance use are increasing [ 11 , 12 ] and may be associated with medicalization and legalization of marijuana in some states [ 13 , 14 ].…”

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The Living the Example Social Media Substance Use Prevention Program: A Pilot Evaluation

Evans¹,

Andrade²,

Goldmeer³

et al. 2017

JMIR Ment Health

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BackgroundAdolescent substance use rates in rural areas of the United States, such as upstate New York, have risen substantially in recent years, calling for new intervention approaches in response to this trend. The Mentor Foundation USA conducts the Living the Example (LTE) campaign to engage youth in prevention using an experiential approach. As part of LTE, youth create their own prevention messages following a training curriculum in techniques for effective messaging and then share them via social media. This paper reports on a pilot evaluation of the LTE program.ObjectiveTo conduct a pilot test of LTE in two rural high schools in upstate New York. We hypothesized that positive antidrug brand representations could be promoted using social media strategies to complement the Shattering the Myths (STM) in-person, event-based approach (hypothesis 1, H1), and that youth would respond positively and engage with prevention messages disseminated by their peers. We also hypothesized that exposure to the social media prevention messages would be associated with more positive substance use avoidance attitudes and beliefs, reductions in future use intentions, and decreased substance use at posttest (hypothesis 2, H2).MethodsWe adapted a previously published curriculum created by the authors that focuses on branding, messaging, and social media for prevention. The curriculum consisted of five, one-hour sessions. It was delivered to participating youth in five sequential weeks after school at the two high schools in late October and early November 2016. We designed a pre- and posttest pilot implementation study to evaluate the effects of LTE on student uptake of the intervention and short-term substance use and related outcomes. Working at two high schools in upstate New York, we conducted a pilot feasibility evaluation of LTE with 9th-grade students (ie, freshmen) at these high schools. We administered a 125-item questionnaire online to capture data on media use; attitudes toward social media; next 30-day personal drug use intentions; personal reasons to use drugs; reasons participants believe their peers would use drugs; self-reported exposure to the LTE program; and receptivity to the LTE program, among those reporting exposure. We constructed multivariable logistic regression models to analyze the relationship between program receptivity and outcomes. First, in a cross-sectional logistic regression model, we regressed self-reported LTE message receipt on drug use intent and actions related to LTE messaging. Then, for analysis of participants with matched pre- and posttest responses, we used multilevel generalized estimating equation (GEE) techniques to model changes in behavior from baseline to follow-up.ResultsYouth reported increased intentions to use marijuana (odds ratio [OR] 2.134, P=.02) between pre- and posttest. However, youth who reported exposure and receptivity to LTE reported a significant decrease in intentions (OR 0.239, P=.008). We observed a similar pattern for sedatives/sleeping pills—an increase in i...

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The Living the Example Social Media Substance Use Prevention Program: A Pilot Evaluation

Evans¹,

Andrade²,

Goldmeer³

et al. 2017

JMIR Ment Health

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“…It appears that adolescents enrolled in the intervention postlegalization have higher insight into their problematic use; however, this did not decrease their number of marijuana use consequences. Recent literature has reported mixed findings regarding increased adolescent marijuana use and perceived risk post marijuana legalization Anderson, Rees, & Sabia, 2014;Durkin, 2014;Friese & Grube, 2013); the current study demonstrates increased negative consequences postlegalization. Although results did not indicate increased marijuana use postlegalization, there was a statistically significant model of increased consequences through perceived risk.…”

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“…Chronic marijuana use can result in impaired cognition, damage to developing areas of the brain, depression, and suicidal ideation in adolescents (Durkin, 2014;Golub, Dunlap, & Benoit, 2010;Volkow, Baler, Compton, & Weiss, 2014). Similarly to alcohol use, marijuana was once a difficult substance to access and possession was associated with a variety of legal consequences.…”

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The Impact of Marijuana Legalization on Adolescent Use, Consequences, and Perceived Risk

Estoup

Moise-Campbell

Varma

et al. 2016

Substance Use & Misuse

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“…El debate respeto a la regulación o legalización del UMC es un tema controversial que conlleva inherentemente implicaciones para los profesionales de la salud, los encargados de formular políticas públicas y la sociedad en general (Durkin, 2014;Morris, TenEyck, Barnes, & Kovandzic, 2014).…”

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Uso medicinal de cannabis: una revisión de la evidencia

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Este estudio pretende reportar la evidencia actual sobre el uso medicinal de cannabis existente en la base de datos Scopus. Se llevó a cabo una revisión sistemática de las publicaciones científicas, entre el periodo 2013-2017, disponibles en Scopus sobre el uso medicinal de cannabis. Estados Unidos es el país con mayor cantidad de publicaciones, seguido de Canadá e Israel; existiendo un aumento progresivo y constante de la evidencia entre los años 2013 y 2017. Los contenidos de las publicaciones versan sobre efectos beneficiosos y adversos para la salud, consecuencias de la legislación del cannabis y su asociación con diversas variables. Existe una falta de estudios en uso medicinal de cannabis respecto a tratamientos y enfermedades, su estandarización, vías de administración y dosis, dando cuenta de la necesidad de un volumen mayor de investigaciones al respecto.

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Legalization of Marijuana for Non-Medical Use: Health, Policy, Socioeconomic, and Nursing Implications

Cited by 12 publications

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The Living the Example Social Media Substance Use Prevention Program: A Pilot Evaluation

The Living the Example Social Media Substance Use Prevention Program: A Pilot Evaluation

The Impact of Marijuana Legalization on Adolescent Use, Consequences, and Perceived Risk

Uso medicinal de cannabis: una revisión de la evidencia

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