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https://www.thestar.com/halifax/201...ling-results-says-nova-scotia-researcher.html
HALIFAX— Young people who start using cannabis early and continue using it often throughout their adolescence are more likely than their peers to be less successful in their education and work lives and to suffer poor health outcomes.
Those are among the findings of a 10-year study of cannabis use among youth undertaken by a team of researchers led by psychology professor Dr. Kara Thompson of St. FX University in Antigonish, N.S., and Dr. Bonnie Leadbeater at the University of Victoria.
The researchers called the results of their study “troubling.”
“I think we were surprised about how many of our young people were really using in ways that were incredibly high risk, so one in 10 of our young people were what we call our chronic users,” Thompson said in an interview.
“By 13, they’re already using more than once a week and they continue to use more than once a week through their entire young adult period with no signs of declining at all.”
Researchers looked at a decade of data from the Victoria Healthy Youth Survey, which for 10 years followed a cohort of 662 young people who were between the ages of 12 and 18. They were interviewed every two years about their substance use, mental health, accomplishments and general well-being.
Although the research looked at a group of B.C. youth, Thompson said results would be similar here in Nova Scotia.
“If you look at the most recent trends from the Canadian Student Tobacco, Alcohol and Drugs Survey, Nova Scotia reports that 22 per cent of Grade 7 to Grade 12 students have used cannabis, and in B.C. it’s 20 per cent,” Thompson said.
“So current stats would suggest that at least in the Maritimes, we tend to be quite on par with B.C.”
HALIFAX— Young people who start using cannabis early and continue using it often throughout their adolescence are more likely than their peers to be less successful in their education and work lives and to suffer poor health outcomes.
Those are among the findings of a 10-year study of cannabis use among youth undertaken by a team of researchers led by psychology professor Dr. Kara Thompson of St. FX University in Antigonish, N.S., and Dr. Bonnie Leadbeater at the University of Victoria.
The researchers called the results of their study “troubling.”
“I think we were surprised about how many of our young people were really using in ways that were incredibly high risk, so one in 10 of our young people were what we call our chronic users,” Thompson said in an interview.
“By 13, they’re already using more than once a week and they continue to use more than once a week through their entire young adult period with no signs of declining at all.”
Researchers looked at a decade of data from the Victoria Healthy Youth Survey, which for 10 years followed a cohort of 662 young people who were between the ages of 12 and 18. They were interviewed every two years about their substance use, mental health, accomplishments and general well-being.
Although the research looked at a group of B.C. youth, Thompson said results would be similar here in Nova Scotia.
“If you look at the most recent trends from the Canadian Student Tobacco, Alcohol and Drugs Survey, Nova Scotia reports that 22 per cent of Grade 7 to Grade 12 students have used cannabis, and in B.C. it’s 20 per cent,” Thompson said.
“So current stats would suggest that at least in the Maritimes, we tend to be quite on par with B.C.”
