Is legal recreational cannabis associated with cannabis use during pregnancy, beliefs about safety, and perceived community stigma?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Among pregnant and recently pregnant people we investigated whether legal recreational cannabis is associated with pregnancy-related cannabis use, safety beliefs, and perceived community stigma.

Methods

In 2022, we surveyed 3571 currently and recently pregnant English- or Spanish-speaking adults in 37 states. Primary outcomes included cannabis use during pregnancy and two continuous scale measures of beliefs about safety and perceived community stigma. Using generalized linear models and mixed effects ordinal logistic regression with random effects for state, we assessed associations between legal recreational cannabis and outcomes of interest, controlling for state-level and individual-level covariates and specifying appropriate functional form.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Raifman S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11580748 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature