National Institute on Drug Abuse

What's Known and Unknown About Marijuana (Part Two)

January 2024

Marijuana legalization poses many challenges — especially those related to drug chemistry and toxicology — for researchers, law enforcement, and policy makers. In the latest episode of Justice Today, NIJ Communications Assistant Josh Mondoro hosts a conversation with NIJ Scientist Frances Scott about marijuana toxicology, including comparing its effects to alcohol, measuring impairment, and maintaining public safety as more and more states legalize recreational marijuana.

Cannabinoid Pharmacology: Three Decades of Controlled Human Cannabinoid Administration Studies

Event Dates

August 1, 2023, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Eastern

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Open

Four-Year Follow-Up of Multisystemic Therapy with Substance-Abusing and Substance-Dependent Juvenile Offenders

Date Published

July 2002

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Drug Paraphernalia Law and Injection-Related Infectious Disease Risk Among Injectors

NCJ Number

177021

Journal

Journal of Drug Issues

Date Published

1999

Effects of Case Management on Drug Users' Risky Sex

NCJ Number

173595

Journal

Prison Journal

Date Published

1998

Identity-Linked Perceptions of the Police Among African American Juvenile Offenders: A Developmental Perspective

Date Published

January 2011

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Criminal Justice and Drug Treatment Systems Linkage: Federal Promotion of Interagency Collaboration in the 1970s

Date Published

1993

Publication Type

Legislation/Policy Analysis

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Method for Measuring Organizational Functioning in Juvenile Justice Facilities Using Resident Ratings

Date Published

November 2010

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Some Initial Findings and Policy Implications of the Pathways to Desistance Study

Date Published

October 2012

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Interlaboratory Comparison Studies on the Analysis of Hair for Drugs of Abuse

Date Published

1993

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

HIV Infection and AIDS Among U.S. Prison Inmates

Date Published

1992

Publication Type

Survey

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Personal Safety in Dangerous Places

Date Published

1992

Publication Type

Training (Aid/Material)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Risk, Need, and Responsivity (RNR): It All Depends

Date Published

January 2006

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

How do Varied Populations Interact with Embodied Conversational Agents? Findings From Inner-City Adolescents and Prisoners

Date Published

2008

Publication Type

Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Ethnic Identity and Offending Trajectories Among Mexican American Juvenile Offenders: Gang Membership and Psychosocial Maturity

Date Published

December 2012

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored, OJJDP-Sponsored

Shifting Importance of Alcohol and Marijuana as Gateway Substances Among Serious Drug Abusers

Date Published

1994

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Research and the Development of Public Policy: The Case of Drugs and Violent Crime

Date Published

1990

Publication Type

Survey

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Setting for the Crack Era: Macro Forces, Micro Consequences (1960-1992)

Date Published

1996

Publication Type

Historical Overview

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Influence of Organizational Characteristics on Success in Implementing Process Improvement Goals in Correctional Treatment Settings Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research

NCJ Number

252556

Journal

Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research

Date Published

2017

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NIJ Journal Issue No. 237

Date Published

October 1998

Series

NIJ Journal

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ

Addiction, the Brain, and Evidence-Based Treatment

Date Published

March 2012

Publication Type

Issue Overview, Instructional Material, Conference Material

Agencies

NIJ

NIDA-NIJ Joint Initiative for Research on Retail Drug Markets

Date Published

September 2010

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Program/Project Description, Grants and Funding

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

NIDA-NIJ Joint Initiative for Research on Retail Drug Markets

NCJ Number

252076

Date Published

September 2010

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

PDF

Beyond Detention: A 12-Year Longitudinal Study of Positive Outcomes in Delinquent Youth

NCJ Number

251908

Journal

JAMA Pediatrics

Date Published

February 2017

PDF

Building Bridges in New Jersey: Strengthening Interagency Collaboration for Offenders Receiving Drug Treatment

NCJ Number

251712

Journal

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology

Date Published

2017

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