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The present study found no effect of adolescent cannabinoid exposure in the escalation model, suggesting that adolescent WIN exposure may not facilitate the acquisition, maintenance, or escalation of cocaine use in adulthood. An alternative hypothesis is that the effect of cannabinoid use … Continue reading →

These stigmatizing views of Hmong-American cultivators affect all cannabis growers. Anti-cannabis pressure creates a precarious state of impermanence — a season’s crop might be destroyed, infrastructure confiscated and investments of limited resources lost at any moment, disallowing longer-term investments. The … Continue reading →

Remarkably, Irvine has 9.7% of the Hispanic population, and Santa Ana—77.3%. In Outsiders, Howard Becker defines three types of social control of cannabis use: limiting supply and access to the drug; keeping nonusers from discovering that one is a user; defining the act as … Continue reading →

As I discussed above, cannabis prohibition and cannabis legalization are not separate processes; these are two dialectically united phenomena that interact, contradict, negate, and reaffirm each other. Socio-legal scholars, who are interested in cannabis as a criminal justice issue, often … Continue reading →

The image of cannabis as a dangerous drug was promoted in the public discourse, which resulted in its classification as a Schedule I narcotic by the 1970’s Controlled Substances Act .11 In the 1980s, with the launch of the war … Continue reading →

The advertising and marketing restrictions in AUMA prohibit the use of cartoon characters, giveaways, and adverThising on billboards located on an “Interstate Highway or State Highway which crosses the border of any other state.” The signage requirements for marijuana licensees … Continue reading →

One caveat for the locomotor studies is that the arena was not as large compared with the size of a lobster as the similar ratio for typical open field studies conducted in rodents. Similarly, the water depth was limited to … Continue reading →

Because I used a voluntary identification card database as a proxy for all medical marijuana users in California, many approximations may be under estimated. While there was some evidence of a substitution effect between alcohol and medical marijuana from the … Continue reading →

Using the USDA Quick Stats tool to find census data on Milk – Operations with Sales for California returns the years 1997, 2002, 2007, 2012 and 2017 and comes with the county name and the number of operations.All available years … Continue reading →

Future studies of peer coaching might consider using validated measures more sensitive to a patient coaching intervention such as the Patient Activation Measure. In sum, veteran peer-delivered motivational coaching failed to achieve enhanced MH treatment engagement in rural veterans compared to … Continue reading →