{"id":1286,"date":"2018-02-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/27\/medical-marijuana-laws-not-tied-to-increases-in-teen-use\/"},"modified":"2018-02-28T17:09:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T17:09:23","slug":"medical-marijuana-laws-not-tied-to-increases-in-teen-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/27\/medical-marijuana-laws-not-tied-to-increases-in-teen-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Marijuana Laws Not Tied to Increases in Teen Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Findings based on 11 separate studies using data from four, large-scale U.S. surveys<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY, Feb. 27, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Current evidence does not show that medical marijuana laws (MMLs) enacted through 2014 have led to increases in adolescent marijuana use, according to a review published online Feb. 22 in <i>Addiction<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron L. Sarvet, from Columbia University in New York, and colleagues, conducted a systematic literature review to identify studies estimating the effect of U.S. medical marijuana laws on past-month marijuana use prevalence among adolescents.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that none of the 11 studies included in the meta-analysis found significant estimates of pre-post MML changes in marijuana use prevalence among adolescents compared with changes in non-MML states over the same time period. All four studies comparing MML with non-MML states found higher rates of past-month marijuana use in MML states pre-MML passage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Synthesis of the current evidence does not support the hypothesis that U.S. MMLs until 2014 have led to increases in adolescent marijuana use prevalence,&#8221; the authors write.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/add.14136\/full\" target=\"_new\">Abstract\/Full Text<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/add.14139\/full\" target=\"_new\">Editorial<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Findings based on 11 separate studies using data from four, large-scale U.S. surveys<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}