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Prevalence of marijuana and other substance use before and after Washington State’s change from legal medical marijuana to legal medical and nonmedical marijuana: Cohort comparisons in a sample of adolescents
W. Alex Mason , Charles B. Fleming , Jay L. Ringle , Koren Hanson , Thomas J. Gross , Kevin P. Haggerty
Substance Abuse
Vol. 37, Iss. 2, 2016
This study is one of the first to explore the degree to which the transition from legal medical marijuana to legal medical and non-medical marijuana in Washington State might influence adolescent marijuana and other substance use. Results providing some support for marijuana-for-cigarettes and marijuana-for-alcohol substitution effects shortly after the non-medical marijuana law was enacted suggest that continued monitoring of marijuana as well as other substance use among adolescents is needed as legalization takes root. The analytic model used in the current study may be useful for further tests in longer-term studies with larger samples.
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