{"id":2953,"date":"2014-09-09T18:57:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T23:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2953"},"modified":"2014-09-09T14:00:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T19:00:49","slug":"cannabis-impacts-on-teenagers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/cannabis-impacts-on-teenagers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis impacts on teenagers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Daily users of cannabis before age 17 are over 60% less likely to complete high school or obtain a degree compared to those who have never used the drug, a new review of literature shows. The authors reviewed 290 reports on cannabis use in teenagers published since 2004. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The authors conclude that adolescent cannabis use is linked to difficulties in successfully completing the tasks that mark the transition to adulthood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span>Original research paper<\/span><\/span>\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>The Lancet Psychiatry<\/em><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span>on\u00a0<strong>September 9, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Edmund Silins, University of New South Wales,\u00a0Sydney, Australia<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily users of cannabis before age 17 are over 60% less likely to complete high school or obtain a degree compared to those who have never used the drug, a new review of literature shows. The authors reviewed 290 reports on cannabis use in teenagers published since 2004. The authors conclude that adolescent cannabis use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2159,1842,51,1647,1000,476],"class_list":["post-2953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-cannabis","tag-drugs","tag-health","tag-human-behaviour","tag-mental-health","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-LD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2955,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions\/2955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}