teenager – Marijuana Impact Group https://themig.org Marijuana Impact Group Tue, 17 Oct 2023 19:54:31 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://themig.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/logo_reduced-150x150.png teenager – Marijuana Impact Group https://themig.org 32 32 Casual Cannabis Use in Teens & Adverse Mental Outcomes https://themig.org/casual-cannabis-use-in-teens-adverse-mental-outcomes/ Wed, 17 May 2023 04:07:32 +0000 https://www.thenmi.org/?p=7190 Currently there is a great deal of recent research supporting the elevated risk of adverse mental and behavioral outcomes in teenagers, diagnosed with a Cannabis Use Disorder (CUD), from chronic marijuana use. But what are the risks for the casual (“nondisordered”) teenage marijuana user that does not have a CUD? This study supports that they too are at an increased risk for adverse mental and behavioral outcomes as well. 

This study examined national survey data for teens, 12 – 17 years of age (N=68,263), from 2015 to 2019, grouped as either “no marijuana use”, recent marijuana use (with no diagnosis of a CUD), and those marijuana users having been diagnosed as having a CUD. Researchers reported that when compared to non-users, the casual teenage marijuana user is over twice as probable to experience some adverse impacts to their mental health, scholastic achievement, cognitive development, and processing. For those diagnosed with a CUD, their risk rate is nearly 4 times greater for these same adverse outcomes than the non-use group. 

This study demonstrates that more research is needed to fully understand the implications, short and long term, of marijuana use by teens and young adults. 

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