{"id":4190,"date":"2019-02-19T08:22:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T08:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=4190"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:13:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:13:36","slug":"no-evidence-tougher-policies-deter-adolescent-cannabis-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2019\/02\/19\/no-evidence-tougher-policies-deter-adolescent-cannabis-use\/","title":{"rendered":"No evidence tougher policies deter adolescent cannabis use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study finds no evidence that teenage cannabis use is lower in countries with tougher policies.<\/p>\n<p>The study, by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/academic\/s\/stevens-alex.html\">Alex Stevens, Professor in Criminal Justice<\/a>, used data from the World Health Organisation\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbsc.org\/\">Health Behaviour in School-aged Children<\/a> survey. This survey asked over 100,000 teenagers in 38 countries, including the UK, USA, Russia, France, Germany and Canada, about their cannabis use.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Stevens\u2019s analysis of the data found no association between a country having a more liberal policy on cannabis use and higher rates of teenage cannabis use.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the study in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/21190\/no-evidence-tougher-policies-deter-adolescent-cannabis-use\">University&#8217;s News Centre<\/a> article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study finds no evidence that teenage cannabis use is lower in countries with tougher policies. The study, by Alex Stevens, Professor in Criminal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2019\/02\/19\/no-evidence-tougher-policies-deter-adolescent-cannabis-use\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40401,"featured_media":3593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[43783,10482,124,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4191,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions\/4191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}