{"id":1801,"date":"2009-07-17T15:21:39","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T14:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2009-07-17T15:21:39","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T14:21:39","slug":"marijuana-use-from-adolescence-to-young-adulthood-multiple-developmental-trajectories-and-their-associated-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/07\/marijuana-use-from-adolescence-to-young-adulthood-multiple-developmental-trajectories-and-their-associated-outcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana Use from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Multiple Developmental Trajectories and Their Associated Outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rand Corporation, Drug Policy Research Center 2004. The study used survey data from 5,833 California and Oregon middle-school students. The participants completed the surveys six times over a 10-year period between ages 13 and 23. About 44% also responded to survey questions at age 29 with data from age-matched abstainers.\u00a0<br \/>\nFindings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Report suggests that people who abstain from smoking marijuana appear to have a better quality of life and higher levels of educational achievement than marijuana users<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Early use of marijuana was associated with lowered income and reduced health later in life<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The abstainers had an overall higher level of educational attainment, better health, greater life satisfaction and a lower rate of other drug use<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Those reporting a relatively high level of use at age 13 fared significantly worse than all other groups on over-all health and yearly earnings. The results show that people underestimate the harm marijuana can cause.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic; text-align: right;\">Source: Health psychology, v. 23, no. 3, May 2004, p. 299-307,. Ellickson, Martino,&amp;. Collins<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rand Corporation, Drug Policy Research Center 2004. The study used survey data from 5,833 California and Oregon middle-school students. The participants completed the surveys six times over a 10-year period between ages 13 and 23. About 44% also responded to survey questions at age 29 with data from age-matched abstainers.\u00a0 Findings: Report suggests that people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-marijuana","category-drug-use-effects-on-foetus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}