Rethinking indicators of problematic cannabis use in the era of medical cannabis legalization.

CONCLUSIONS: It is possible that existing cannabis problem screening tools are not equally valid across medical and recreational users, since individual screening items have different implications for recreational and medical users. For instance, items that measure use that deviates from common patterns of recreational use (use before midday and use alone) reflect normative assumptions that non-problematic recreational use will occur in contexts of parties or social gatherings. However, use before midday and alone are how people typically take medication for chronic medical health problems. There is thus a need to develop and validate criteria for problematic use in medical cannabis patients.
PMID: 28992573 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Addictive Behaviors - September 30, 2017 Category: Addiction Authors: Sznitman SR, Room R Tags: Addict Behav Source Type: research