Up the Ladder of Concern: Youth and Young Adult Cannabis Use.
This paper aims to review patterns of cannabis (i.e., marijuana and hashish) use among high-risk Israeli youth and young adults based on research conducted by the Ben-Gurion University, Regional Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center. A total of 1074 Israeli youth (67.0% male, 33.0% female) were stu...
| Published in: | International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction Vol. 16; no. 4; pp. 844 - 850 |
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