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Men and women use cannabis for different reasons

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 11/05/2015 - 08:16

Cannabis is the most widely used illicit drug with more than 181 million consumers worldwide. It is often considered to be primarily a male problem: men make up three quarters of users, consume larger quantities, and are twice as likely to become dependent. Fewer women use cannabis, do so in smaller amounts, and start smoking later than men.

Women still experience significant harms from use: women escalate more rapidly from trying cannabis to addiction and are more likely to relapse following abstinence.

Studies have identified differences in male and female cannabis users that could inform how we treat cannabis addiction for individual users. But the evidence may not be adequate.

Why men and women use cannabis

First it’s important to note when discussing differences between large groups within society, such as sex differences, these are seen at the population level when we average across these two groups. There will be many individual men and...

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