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High‐potency cannabis more than quadruples risk for use disorder within year
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30369
Subject(s) - potency , cannabis , medicine , drug , psychiatry , environmental health , psychology , biology , biochemistry , in vitro
Higher‐potency cannabis increases the risk for the onset of the first cannabis use disorder (CUD) symptom, researchers have found. Therefore, guidelines for potency are critical for reducing negative health outcomes, they conclude, in their study published in the December issue of Drug and Alcohol Dependence .