Chen Xinguang, Yu Bin, Stanton Bonita, Cook Robert L, Chen Ding-Geng Din, Okafor Chukwuemeka
Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, USA.
J Drug Educ. 2018 Mar-Jun;48(1-2):18-35. doi: 10.1177/0047237918803361. Epub 2018 Oct 9.
Research findings are inconsistent regarding a positive association between the passage of state medical marijuana laws (MML) and adolescent access and use marijuana. We utilized a novel analytical approach to examine this issue with multi-year data from the 1997–2013 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) of the State of Michigan. After controlling for the historically declining trend in marijuana use prior to the passages of MML in Michigan, we found that marijuana use among adolescents had increased subsequent to the passage of state MML. Study findings suggest the need for considering the increased risk of marijuana use among adolescents as the number of states with laws permitting marijuana use is increasing.
关于州医用大麻法律(MML)的通过与青少年获取和使用大麻之间的正相关关系,研究结果并不一致。我们采用了一种新颖的分析方法,利用密歇根州1997 - 2013年青少年风险行为监测系统(YRBSS)的多年数据来研究这个问题。在控制了密歇根州MML通过之前大麻使用的历史下降趋势后,我们发现州MML通过后青少年中的大麻使用有所增加。研究结果表明,随着允许使用大麻的州数量增加,需要考虑青少年使用大麻风险增加的问题。