Cannabis Legalization and Adolescent Use of Electronic Vapor Products, Cannabis, and Cigarettes.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Cannabis legalization may have unintended consequences, such as effects on prevalence of adolescent use of other substances. We hypothesize that in states that have legalized recreational cannabis (RCL states), electronic vapor product use ("vaping"), cannabis, and cigarette use among adolescents is more prevalent than in states that have only legalized medical cannabis (MCL states) and states that have neither legalized recreational nor medical cannabis (NL states).

Methods

Data are from the Center for Disease Control's 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey (n = 107,665), a nationally representative survey of US high school students. We categorized student responses by cannabis legalization status of the state in which they lived at time of survey, then te

SUBMITTER: Bhatia D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10210543 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Feb 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature