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Hemp In The United States: An Analysis Of Policy And Consumption, Amanda Falkner
Hemp In The United States: An Analysis Of Policy And Consumption, Amanda Falkner
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
As highlighted by its history, the association between hemp and marijuana has proven to be a barrier to success for industrial hemp production for decades. Once a prevalent agricultural crop in the United States, prohibitive legislation discouraged its production and formally made hemp an illegal crop in 1970. Consequently, hemp and its myriad applications remained underutilized by the United States for over forty years. It wasn’t until the 2014 Farm Bill that hemp production was reintroduced as an option for farmers. This hemp hiatus has created the need for interdisciplinary research in order for the market for the crop to …
Alcohol Consumption Among Cannabis Users In Vermont, Lara Cushman, Florencia Drumwright, Nawar Kareem, Madeleine Mank, Nicholas Milazzo Ms, Victoria Hart
Alcohol Consumption Among Cannabis Users In Vermont, Lara Cushman, Florencia Drumwright, Nawar Kareem, Madeleine Mank, Nicholas Milazzo Ms, Victoria Hart
Master of Public Health Culminating Projects
Objective: To examine the relationship between cannabis and alcohol consumption in Vermont; after the legalization of cannabis in 2018.
Methods: We used Vermont's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey; this data included only participants who had reported alcohol use in the past year (n = 3,781). We used multiple linear regression to compare frequency of cannabis use against days per month of alcohol consumption and binomial logistic to compare regression to the frequency in which cannabis was used against the odds of Heavy Alcohol Consumption (HAC).
Results: We found that low and moderate cannabis users had more days of …
Non-Medical Cannabis Use Screening And Advising, William Dean Brown
Non-Medical Cannabis Use Screening And Advising, William Dean Brown
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
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Pilot Study: Healthcare Cannabis Assessment, Nicole Wershoven
Pilot Study: Healthcare Cannabis Assessment, Nicole Wershoven
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Due to state legalization and increased access to cannabis, there is increasing use of cannabis in Vermont and nationwide. Cannabis is used medically for certain qualifying conditions in Vermont in addition to recreationally. In a recent study they found 45% of adult primary care patients in Vermont had used cannabis in the last year and only 18% of patients reported their clinician as being a good source of information regarding cannabis. Educating clinicians about cannabis is critical for quality comprehensive patient care. The objective of this project was the development of a short survey to deploy to primary care clinicians …
Biobehavioral Predictors Of Cannabis Use In Adolescence, Philip Aaron Spechler
Biobehavioral Predictors Of Cannabis Use In Adolescence, Philip Aaron Spechler
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Cannabis use initiated during adolescence may precipitate lasting consequences on the brain and behavioral health of the individual. However, research on the risk factors for cannabis use during adolescence has been largely cross-sectional in design. Despite the few prospective studies, even less is known about the neurobiological predictors. This dissertation improves on the extant literature by leveraging a large longitudinal study to uncover the predictors of cannabis use in adolescent samples collected prior to exposure. All data were drawn from the IMAGEN study and contained a large sample of adolescents studied at age 14 (N=2,224), and followed up at age …
An Educational Module For Adolescents On Cannabis Following Its Legalization, Anna Lidofsky
An Educational Module For Adolescents On Cannabis Following Its Legalization, Anna Lidofsky
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Recreational use of cannabis has been recently legalized in Vermont. One year prior to its legalization, 42% of high school students in Washington County reported at least one-time use of cannabis. An educational module for adolescents was developed to address the increasing potency of cannabis and health risks associated with its use.
Predictive Modeling Of Adolescent Cannabis Use From Multimodal Data, Philip Spechler
Predictive Modeling Of Adolescent Cannabis Use From Multimodal Data, Philip Spechler
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Predicting teenage drug use is key to understanding the etiology of substance abuse. However, classic predictive modeling procedures are prone to overfitting and fail to generalize to independent observations. To mitigate these concerns, cross-validated logistic regression with elastic-net regularization was used to predict cannabis use by age 16 from a large sample of fourteen year olds (N=1,319). High-dimensional data (p = 2,413) including parent and child psychometric data, child structural and functional MRI data, and genetic data (candidate single-nucleotide polymorphisms, "SNPs") collected at age 14 were used to predict the initiation of cannabis use (minimum six occasions) by age 16. …
Distress Intolerance And Cannabis Use: An Initial Empirical Investigation, Julianna Brett Hogan
Distress Intolerance And Cannabis Use: An Initial Empirical Investigation, Julianna Brett Hogan
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Within the United States (U.S.), one-third of those who use cannabis (the most commonly used illicit drug in the U.S.), exhibit cannabis use problems significant enough to warrant a diagnosis of cannabis use disorder (CUD; Compton, Grant, Colliver, Glantz, & Stinson, 2004). Data suggests that quitting cannabis is highly difficult (Copersino et al., 2006), yet, there is little empirical knowledge about the nature of factors that relate to quit processes (e.g., self-efficacy). One potentially promising variable of relevance to CUD is distress intolerance (Leyro, Zvolensky, & Bernstein, 2010). Distress intolerance is referred to as (a) the perceived capacity to withstand …