What is the hype on #MedicinalCannabis in the United States? A content analysis of medicinal cannabis tweets.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Medicinal cannabis is now legal in 44 US jurisdictions. Between 2020 and 2021 alone, four US jurisdictions legalised medicinal cannabis. The aim of this study is to identify themes in medicinal cannabis tweets from US jurisdictions with different legal statuses of cannabis from January to June 2021.

Methods

A total of 25,099 historical tweets from 51 US jurisdictions were collected using Python. Content analysis was performed on a random sample of tweets accounting for the population size of each US jurisdictions (n = 750). Results were presented separately by tweets posted from jurisdictions where all cannabis use (non-medicinal and medicinal) is 'fully legalised', 'illegal' and legal for 'medical-only' use.

Results

Four themes were identified: 'Policy',

SUBMITTER: Lim CCW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10952640 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature