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  • 14 - The Policy Implications of Cannabis Dependence

  • from Part IV - Policy
  • Edited by Roger Roffman, University of Washington, Robert S. Stephens, Virginia College of Technology
  • Foreword by G. Alan Marlatt, University of Washington
  • Book:
    Cannabis Dependence
    Published online:
    29 October 2009
    Print publication:
    23 February 2006, pp 315-340

  • Summary

    This chapter summarizes the key features of cannabis dependence, and briefly discusses why dependence requires a policy response. It then explores the various ways in which the public health system may respond to cannabis dependence. A major development in responding to alcohol dependence and alcohol-related health problems has been the adoption of a public health perspective on alcohol use. The prohibition on the recreational use, cultivation, and sale of cannabis is primarily aimed at preventing young people from using cannabis. Public education campaigns can be used to inform drinkers about the risks of alcohol use. Adolescents are a priority group for research into treatment of cannabis dependence. The existence of cannabis dependence is a contested issued in the cannabis policy debate in the USA. The existence of cannabis dependence complicates the political task of those who want to decriminalize or legalize cannabis use.