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Special Issue: Cannabis in Canada in the Post-Legalization Period
Vol. 7 No. 3 (2024)October 2023 marked the 5-year anniversary of Canada’s legalization of recreational cannabis. As of the end of 2024, it remains the only G7 nation to have taken this step. To coincide with this milestone and further expand Cannabis’s international scope, we published this special issue focused on cannabis in Canada during the post-legalization period. For this national natural experiment, the impacts of legalization and post-legalization patterns of recreational and medical use are important for Canadian public health but also can help to inform other countries as they consider legalization policies.
GUEST EDITOR
James MacKillop, Ph.D., CPsych, FCAHS
Director, Centre for Medicinal Cannabis Research (CMCR), Faculty of Health Sciences
Director, Peter Boris Centre for Addictions Research (PBCAR), Faculty of Health Sciences
Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences, Faculty of Health Sciences
Associate Member, Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, Faculty of Science
Director, Peter Boris Centre for Addictions Research, St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton
Director, Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Medicinal Cannabis Research, McMaster University
jmackill@mcmaster.ca
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Special Issue: College Student Cannabis Use Vol. 2
Vol. 7 No. 1 (2024)Cannabis use among college students has reached its highest point in 30 years with 43% of students reporting use within the past year, and 26% within the past 30 days (Schulenberg et al., 2020). The high prevalence of cannabis use is a major public health concern due to the range of unwanted consequences, including risk for cannabis use disorder, that can result from regular cannabis use (cf. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2017). Often journals reject college student samples as convenience samples; however, for cannabis, college students are among those at highest risk for cannabis-related negative consequences. This can result in undergraduate and graduate students having trouble finding journals amenable to publishing findings from well conducted theses and dissertations using college student data. This special issue series highlights groundbreaking research on cannabis use among college students.
Guest Editor:
Mark A. Prince, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Associate Director of Addiction Counseling
Colorado State University
Mark.Prince@colostate.edu
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Special Issue: College Student Cannabis Use Vol. 1
Vol. 6 No. 3 (2023)Cannabis use among college students has reached its highest point in 30 years with 43% of students reporting use within the past year, and 26% within the past 30 days (Schulenberg et al., 2020). The high prevalence of cannabis use is a major public health concern due to the range of unwanted consequences, including risk for cannabis use disorder, that can result from regular cannabis use (cf. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2017). Often journals reject college student samples as convenience samples; however, for cannabis, college students are among those at highest risk for cannabis-related negative consequences. This can result in undergraduate and graduate students having trouble finding journals amenable to publishing findings from well conducted theses and dissertations using college student data. This special issue series highlights groundbreaking research on cannabis use among college students.
Guest Editor:
Mark A. Prince, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Associate Director of Addiction Counseling
Colorado State University
Mark.Prince@colostate.edu
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Special Issue: Cannabis Legalization Policy and Adolescents
Vol. 5 No. 3 (2022)As an increasing number of states in the United States and countries throughout the world have established policies for legal sale and possession of cannabis for recreational purposes by adults, it is not clear what effects such policies may have on adolescents. This special issue focuses on cannabis legalization policy and its effects on adolescents.
Guest Editor:
Joel W. Grube, PhD, MS, AB
Director, Prevention Science Research Training Program
Senior Research Scientist, Prevention Research Center, PIRE
Adjunct Professor, Health and Social Behavior, University of California Berkeley
