Relationship between cannabis use and psychotic experiences in college students is overblown: A response to Wright et al., (2021)

2022 ◽  
Vol 240 ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Viviana Evans ◽  
Grant Gonsalves ◽  
Christopher Medina-Kirchner
2021 ◽  
Vol 231 ◽  
pp. 198-204
Author(s):  
Abigail C. Wright ◽  
Corinne Cather ◽  
Amy Farabaugh ◽  
Olga Terechina ◽  
Paola Pedrelli ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terrell A Hicks ◽  
Daniel Bustamante ◽  
Kaitlin E Bountress ◽  
Amy Adkins ◽  
Dace S Svikis ◽  
...  

Objective: To examine the prevalence and correlates of lifetime cannabis use (i.e., experimental [use 1-5 times] and non-experimental [use ≥ 6 times]) in relation to demographics, interpersonal trauma (IPT), and alcohol and nicotine use.Participants: A large (n = 9,889) representative sample of college students at an urban college campus in the southeastern part of the United States.Methods: Participants were 4 cohorts of first-year college students who completed measures of demographic variables, cannabis, alcohol, nicotine, and IPT. Associations were estimated using multinomial logistic regressions.Results: The prevalence of lifetime cannabis use was 45.5%. Specifically, 28.1% reported non-experimental cannabis use and 17.4% reported experimental cannabis use. Race, cohort, nicotine, and IPT were associated with experimental and non-experimental cannabis use. Additionally, alcohol and sex were associated with non-experimental cannabis use.Conclusions: Results show that cannabis use is prevalent among college students and is associated with race, IPT, and other substance use.


2012 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. S315
Author(s):  
S. Gage ◽  
M. Hickman ◽  
J. Heron ◽  
M. Munafò ◽  
S. Zammit

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (9) ◽  
pp. 764-768 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth H. Beck ◽  
Kimberly M. Caldeira ◽  
Kathryn B. Vincent ◽  
Kevin E. O'Grady ◽  
Eric D. Wish ◽  
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2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (12) ◽  
pp. 1331-1338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antía Brañas ◽  
María L Barrigón ◽  
Nathalia Garrido-Torres ◽  
Salvador Perona-Garcelán ◽  
Juan F Rodriguez-Testal ◽  
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Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) assessed using the Community Assessment of Psychic Experience (CAPE) questionnaire and the pattern of cannabis use in a non-clinical sample collected by snowball sampling. Methods: Our sample was composed of 204 subjects, distributed into three groups by their cannabis use pattern: 68 were non-cannabis users, 40 were moderate cannabis users and 96 were daily cannabis users. We assessed the psychotic experiences in each group with the CAPE questionnaire; and then controlled for the effect of possible confounding factors like sex, age, social exclusion, age of onset of cannabis use, alcohol use and other drug use. Results: We found a significant quadratic association between the frequency of cannabis use and positive (β = −1.8; p = 0.004) and negative dimension scores (β = −1.2; p = 0.04). The first-rank and mania factors showed a significant quadratic association ( p < 0.05), while the voices factor showed a trend ( p = 0.07). Scores for the different groups tended to maintain a U-shape in their values for the different factors. When we adjusted for gender, age, social exclusion, age of onset of cannabis use, and use of alcohol and other drugs, only the first-rank experiences remained significant. Conclusions: We found there was a U-shaped curve in the association between cannabis use and the positive and negative dimensions of the CAPE score. We also found this association in mania and first-rank experiences.


Author(s):  
Ty S. Schepis ◽  
Alessandro S. De Nadai ◽  
Adrian J. Bravo ◽  
Alison Looby ◽  
Margo C. Villarosa-Hurlocker ◽  
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