The legalization of medical and recreational marijuana has raised concerns about a potential increase in the availability and illegal use of marijuana by adolescent minors. To better understand the etiology, patterns, and consequences of adolescent marijuana use, this article reviews high quality, methodologically rigorous, longitudinal studies that focus on the role of personality factors such as sensation-seeking in the etiology of use, developmental trajectories of use and the effects of chronic use, potential gateway effects of marijuana on other illicit drugs, and its role in the onset of psychiatric disorders in adolescents and young adults. Implications are discussed in terms of mechanisms that account for initial and continued use of marijuana by adolescents, how use is associated with key developmental milestones and adult role socialization, and the potential of marijuana use during adolescence in furthering later drug involvement.

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青少年吸食大麻：因果回顾

医疗和娱乐大麻的合法化引起了人们对青少年未成年人非法使用大麻的可能性增加的担忧。为了更好地了解青少年吸食大麻的病因、模式和后果，本文回顾了高质量、方法学上严谨的纵向研究，这些研究侧重于人格因素的作用，例如寻求感觉在使用病因学中的作用、使用的发展轨迹和长期使用大麻的影响、大麻对其他非法药物的潜在门户影响，以及它在青少年和年轻成人精神疾病发作中的作用。从解释青少年最初和继续使用大麻的机制方面讨论了影响，