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Cannabis use patterns at the dawn of US cannabis reform
In the United States (US), three in 10 cannabis users develop cannabis use disorder (CUD). Usage patterns in line with CUD may be associated with socio-economic disadvantage, and other negative effects. Thus, research on CUD is paramount. To provide understanding around CUD, it is necessary to detai...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7815050/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33526080 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42238-019-0003-z |
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author | Kumar, Navin Puljević, Cheneal Ferris, Jason Winstock, Adam Barratt, Monica J. |
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description | In the United States (US), three in 10 cannabis users develop cannabis use disorder (CUD). Usage patterns in line with CUD may be associated with socio-economic disadvantage, and other negative effects. Thus, research on CUD is paramount. To provide understanding around CUD, it is necessary to detail granular cannabis usage preferences, as some risk from cannabis use may be mitigated through informed behavioral choices by users. We describe cannabis usage preferences among US Global Drug Survey (GDS) respondents, primarily young men. The cross-sectional web-based GDS (2017) was completed by 8345 US-resident respondents (median age = 23, Interquartile Range 19–32; % male = 75.48) who reported cannabis use. Of those who reported cannabis use in the past year, most (78%) reported consuming their first joint more than an hour after waking, and about half the sample (49%) had their last joint 1–2 h before bed. Cannabis was used for a median of 250 days in the last year (almost daily). Respondents spent a median of four hours a day stoned when cannabis was used. High potency herbal cannabis was the preferred variant by 62% of participants. We suggest that frequent use of cannabis may increase risk of health harms, and highlight the need to mitigate problematic use. With the rapidly developing US cannabis market, possibly problematic usage patterns may indicate potential for CUD especially within young men. |
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spelling | pubmed-78150502021-01-25 Cannabis use patterns at the dawn of US cannabis reform Kumar, Navin Puljević, Cheneal Ferris, Jason Winstock, Adam Barratt, Monica J. J Cannabis Res Brief Research Report In the United States (US), three in 10 cannabis users develop cannabis use disorder (CUD). Usage patterns in line with CUD may be associated with socio-economic disadvantage, and other negative effects. Thus, research on CUD is paramount. To provide understanding around CUD, it is necessary to detail granular cannabis usage preferences, as some risk from cannabis use may be mitigated through informed behavioral choices by users. We describe cannabis usage preferences among US Global Drug Survey (GDS) respondents, primarily young men. The cross-sectional web-based GDS (2017) was completed by 8345 US-resident respondents (median age = 23, Interquartile Range 19–32; % male = 75.48) who reported cannabis use. Of those who reported cannabis use in the past year, most (78%) reported consuming their first joint more than an hour after waking, and about half the sample (49%) had their last joint 1–2 h before bed. Cannabis was used for a median of 250 days in the last year (almost daily). Respondents spent a median of four hours a day stoned when cannabis was used. High potency herbal cannabis was the preferred variant by 62% of participants. We suggest that frequent use of cannabis may increase risk of health harms, and highlight the need to mitigate problematic use. With the rapidly developing US cannabis market, possibly problematic usage patterns may indicate potential for CUD especially within young men. BioMed Central 2019-06-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7815050/ /pubmed/33526080 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42238-019-0003-z Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Brief Research Report Kumar, Navin Puljević, Cheneal Ferris, Jason Winstock, Adam Barratt, Monica J. Cannabis use patterns at the dawn of US cannabis reform |
title | Cannabis use patterns at the dawn of US cannabis reform |
title_full | Cannabis use patterns at the dawn of US cannabis reform |
title_fullStr | Cannabis use patterns at the dawn of US cannabis reform |
title_full_unstemmed | Cannabis use patterns at the dawn of US cannabis reform |
title_short | Cannabis use patterns at the dawn of US cannabis reform |
title_sort | cannabis use patterns at the dawn of us cannabis reform |
topic | Brief Research Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7815050/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33526080 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42238-019-0003-z |
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