Trends in cannabis use disorder by cigarette smoking status in the United States, 2002 to 2016

Cannabis is used by more than 147 million people around the world and is the most commonly used drug that is labeled “illicit” by the World Health Organization (World Health Organization (WHO), 2017). Cannabis is in a unique situation among drugs as legalization of Cannabis use for medicinal and recreational purposes is spreading across states in the United States (US; Maxwell and Mendelson, 2016) and other co untries (Room et al., 2010). The use of Cannabis has been increasing in the US in recent years (Azofeifa et al., 2016; Hasin et al., 2015; Hasin et al., 2017) and perceptions of risk of Cannabis use are decreasing (Azofeifa et al., 2016; Compton et al., 2016; Johnston et al., 2016; Pacek et al., 201 5).

Source: Drug and Alcohol Dependence - July 20, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Andrea H. Weinberger, Lauren R. Pacek, Melanie M. Wall, Michael J. Zvolensky, Jan Copeland, Sandro Galea, Shadi Nahvi, Scott J. Moeller, Deborah S. Hasin, Renee D. Goodwin Tags: Full length article Source Type: research