HCPlive (7/25, Walter) reports, “Medicinal cannabis use for young patients in Canada is leading to some negative outcomes, including illicit drug use, tobacco use, and poor physical and mental health,” investigators concluded in a study that “drew data from the 2017 Canadian Tobacco, Alcohol, and Drugs Survey for individuals aged 15-24 years who reported past-year cannabis use,” and then “also compared youth reporting only nonmedicinal cannabis use (n = 2082) to youth reporting medicinal cannabis use for physical health conditions (n = 227), mental health conditions (n = 271), or insomnia (n = 98).” The findings were published online July 19 in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
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Medicinal Cannabis Use Causing Problems Among Young Patients “Kenny Walter, HCPlive, July 26, 2022