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Marijuana use among young people in an era of policy change: what does recent evidence tell us?

Article title: Marijuana use among young people in an era of policy change: What does recent evidence tell us?

Authors: Christopher P. Salas-Wright, PhD and Michael G. Vaughn, PhD

Journal: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse

DOI: 10.1080/00952990.2016.1226319, published online September 30, 2016

On page 1, paragraph 2 of the above article, published online on September 30, 2016, citations for the following statements were erroneously excluded. The corrected text, and new References, appear below:

Research on marijuana use and cannabis use disorder is critical as we seek to understand and make informed decisions regarding drug policy in the 21st century. Two articles in this issue of the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse (AJDAA), both of which employ nationally representative data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), provide a timely contribution to our understanding of marijuana use risk in the lives of adolescents (ages 12 to 17) and young adults (ages 18–25). Chen and colleagues (4) show that, while very unlikely before the age of 11, risk of marijuana use initiation increases precipitously during the early adolescent stage before finding its peak somewhere between ages 16 and 18. Indeed, by age 21, more than 55% of American youth report having used marijuana at least once in their lives and 22% are current marijuana users. Beyond risk of marijuana use, Richter and colleagues (5) demonstrate quite convincingly that cannabis use disorder impacts a substantial proportion of marijuana users. Specifically, we see that, among current marijuana users, approximately one in four adolescents (26%) and one in five young adults (21–22%) meets diagnostic criteria for cannabis use disorder.