Study Finds Americans Far More Likely To Report Secondhand Harms From Alcohol Than From Cannabis
This article was originally published by the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) and appears here with permission.
Data published last week in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs finds that adults are more than six times more likely to acknowledge having experienced secondhand harms because of someone else’s drinking than they are to report having faced similar harms as a result of other people’s cannabis use.
Researchers affiliated with the Alcohol Research Group and RTI International assessed the lifetime prevalence of secondhand harms from alcohol, cannabis, opioids, and other drugs in a nationally representative sample of 7,799 Americans …