Quantifying the social costs of cannabis use to Australia in 2015/16

Steven Whetton; Robert J. Tait; Agata Chrzanowska; Neil Donnelly; Alice McEntee; S. Aqif Mukhtar; Emma Zahra; Gabrielle Campbell; Louisa Degenhardt; Tania Dey; Suraya Abdul Halim; Wayne Hall; Marshall Makate; Richard Norman; Amy Peacock; Ann Roche; Steve Allsop

Quantifying the social costs of cannabis use to Australia in 2015/16

Steven Whetton, Robert J. Tait, Agata Chrzanowska, Neil Donnelly, Alice McEntee, S. Aqif Mukhtar, Emma Zahra, Gabrielle Campbell, Louisa Degenhardt, Tania Dey, Suraya Abdul Halim, Wayne Hall, Marshall Makate, Richard Norman, Amy Peacock, Ann Roche, Steve Allsop

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Abstract

Globally, in 2018 about 192 million people used cannabis (United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, 2020). In Australia, about 10 percent of those aged 14 years or older, about 2 million people, reported that they used cannabis in the previous 12 months (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2017i) and over 150,200 are thought to match the criteria for dependence on cannabis (Global Burden of Disease Collaborative Network, 2018). Both in Australia and elsewhere, the legal status of cannabis is in flux, with the increasing availability of prescribed ‘medical marijuana’ and the decimalisation or legalisation of cannabis use in some countries/states. These alterations will very possibly result in changes in the prevalence of cannabis use and in the groups who consume it. However, there remain potential adverse health and economic consequences of using cannabis.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Perth, Western Australia
Publisher	National Drug Research Institute
Number of pages	157
ISBN (Print)	9780648736745
Publication status	Published - Jun 2020

Keywords

cannabis use
social costs
Economic costs
cannabis dependence
Australia
premature mortality
quality of life

UN SDGs

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Whetton, S., Tait, R. J., Chrzanowska, A., Donnelly, N., McEntee, A., Mukhtar, S. A., Zahra, E., Campbell, G., Degenhardt, L., Dey, T., Halim, S. A., Hall, W., Makate, M., Norman, R., Peacock, A., Roche, A., & Allsop, S. (2020). Quantifying the social costs of cannabis use to Australia in 2015/16. National Drug Research Institute. https://ndri.curtin.edu.au/publications-resources/publication-search#search

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Quantifying the social costs of cannabis use to Australia in 2015/16

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