The study featured a group of teens as young as 12 who had never consumed cannabis. After the passage of some years, researchers found that cannabis use in adolescents was more common if those individuals already used e-cigarettes. Cannabis use was even more prevalent in teens who reported severe mental health problems.
Invididuals with externalizing mental health factors were more likely to explore cannabis, which may not be surprising. What did surprise researchers, however, was the “nuance based on the type of mental health problems that e-cigarette users are facing,” and how that impacted their cannabis use.Article content
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