Three separate universities and hospital systems have published survey data that young people's self reported use of marijuana does not change with the legal use of medical marijuana.
The team of investigators that was compiled from the Oregonian Health and Science University, Boston medical Center, and Brown University in Rhode Island looked at the trends in adolescent usage of marijuana in both Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Massachusetts served as a control state because they do not allow for any legal marijuana use. Rhode Island on the other hand, does allow for medical marijuana use and have legalized it for certain conditions.
This survey was not small. It included over thirty two thousand students and found no statistically significant differences existed between the usage of marijuana between the two states in any of the dozen years evaluated. The instrument used in the sample was a self report known as the Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System. The twelve years evaluated were between 1997 and 2009.
This research project has been backed up by one that was done at the Texas A&M Health Sciences Center. When medical marijuana was first made legal back in 2006 in Rhode Island, one of the big concerns was whether or not the increased availability and potential appeal would result in higher use. The project displayed that marijuana use was fairly common overall, but it did not vary between the years of whether it was legal or not.
A Rhode Island Hospital Foundation grant funded the study. There was no private industry or company funding to introduce bias. The research team noted the surveys will continue to be evaluated and administered to see if teen use subsequently changes as more states legalize marijuana medicinally. Currently 16 states plus the District of Columbia have legalized medical cannabis. Recent research has shown that over fifty percent of Americans want complete legalization, and a whopping seventy percent want marijuana legalized medicinally.
The team of investigators that was compiled from the Oregonian Health and Science University, Boston medical Center, and Brown University in Rhode Island looked at the trends in adolescent usage of marijuana in both Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Massachusetts served as a control state because they do not allow for any legal marijuana use. Rhode Island on the other hand, does allow for medical marijuana use and have legalized it for certain conditions.
This survey was not small. It included over thirty two thousand students and found no statistically significant differences existed between the usage of marijuana between the two states in any of the dozen years evaluated. The instrument used in the sample was a self report known as the Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System. The twelve years evaluated were between 1997 and 2009.
This research project has been backed up by one that was done at the Texas A&M Health Sciences Center. When medical marijuana was first made legal back in 2006 in Rhode Island, one of the big concerns was whether or not the increased availability and potential appeal would result in higher use. The project displayed that marijuana use was fairly common overall, but it did not vary between the years of whether it was legal or not.
A Rhode Island Hospital Foundation grant funded the study. There was no private industry or company funding to introduce bias. The research team noted the surveys will continue to be evaluated and administered to see if teen use subsequently changes as more states legalize marijuana medicinally. Currently 16 states plus the District of Columbia have legalized medical cannabis. Recent research has shown that over fifty percent of Americans want complete legalization, and a whopping seventy percent want marijuana legalized medicinally.
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