Puff, Puff, Don't Pass: harm reduction for cannabis use during a viral respiratory pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, cannabis use social practices often involved sharing prepared cannabis (joints/blunts/cigarettes) and cannabis-related paraphernalia. Previous studies have demonstrated that sharing paraphernalia for cannabis, tobacco, and crack cocaine is a risk factor for respiratory viral and bacterial infections. Although COVID-19 is a respiratory viral infection that spreads through droplets and airborne transmission, it is unclear if many individuals adopted harm reduction practices around sharing cannabis. This study: quantifies the prevalence of sharing prepared non-medical cannabis and cannabis-related paraphernalia reported before and during the pandemic; assesses changes in sharing of non-medical cannabis from before to during the pandemic; asse

SUBMITTER: Assaf RD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9957690 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature