Prevalence and self-reported reasons of cannabis use for medical purposes in USA and Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

There has been increasing attention on cannabis use for medical purposes, but there is currently a lack of data on its epidemiology.

Objectives

To examine the epidemiology of self-reported cannabis use for medical purposes by (1) estimating its prevalence, (2) comparing gender and age differences, and (3) investigating what reasons they were used to manage.

Methods

Participants included 27,169 respondents (aged 16-65) who completed Wave 1 of The International Cannabis Policy Study (ICPS) conducted across Canada and the USA in 2018 via online surveys. Cannabis policy conditions were "US legal-recreational" (legal for both recreational and medical uses), "US legal-medical only", "US illegal", and "Canada-medical only".

Results

The overall prevalence of

SUBMITTER: Leung J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9110511 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature