ArticleAIDS and behavior2018
A Comparison of Motivations for Marijuana Use in HIV-Positive and HIV-Negative Adults.
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- Limited Impact of Cannabidiol on Health-related Quality of Life of People With Long-term Controlled HIV: A Double-blind, Randomized, Controlled Trial.Open forum infectious diseases · 2024Trial
- Associations between cannabis use, cannabis use motivations and past year polysubstance use among people living with HIV in Florida.AIDS care · 2026Article
- A Scoping Review of Observational Research on Cannabis Use for Symptom Management in HIV and Cancer: Implications for Cannabis Nursing.Journal of clinical nursing · 2025Article
- Perceived Risks and Benefits and Frequency of Cannabis Use Among People with HIV in Different Legal Environments.AIDS research and human retroviruses · 2024Article
- Changes in frequency of cannabis use among people with HIV during the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-methods study to explore the underlying reasons for change.The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse · 2023Article
- Cannabis and complementary/alternative self-treatment approaches for symptom management among African American persons living with HIV.AIDS care · 2023Article
- HCV cure: an appropriate moment to reduce cannabis use in people living with HIV? (ANRS CO13 HEPAVIH data).AIDS research and therapy · 2022Article
- Getting High or Getting By? An Examination of Cannabis Motives, Cannabis Misuse, and Concurrent Psychopathology in a Sample of General Community Adults.Substance abuse : research and treatment · 2022Article
- Change in marijuana use and its associated factors among persons living with HIV (PLWH) during the COVID-19 pandemic: Findings from a prospective cohort.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2021Article
- Reasons for Marijuana Use and Its Perceived Effectiveness in Therapeutic and Recreational Marijuana Users Among People Living with HIV in Florida.Cannabis (Albuquerque, N.M.) · 2021Article
- Reciprocal Influences of HIV and Cannabinoids on the Brain and Cognitive Function.Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology · 2020Review
- Medical, therapeutic, and recreational use of cannabis among young men who have sex with men living with HIV.Addiction research & theory · 2020Article
- Marijuana Use Is Not Associated With Changes in Opioid Prescriptions or Pain Severity Among People Living With HIV and Chronic Pain.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2019Article
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Abstract
While medicinal marijuana use is common among persons with HIV, it is not known whether persons with HIV are more motivated to use marijuana medically compared to HIV-negative counterparts. This study examined motivations for marijuana use in a sample of 94 HIV+ and HIV- adults. Participants used marijuana 21.27 days in the last 30 days on average. HIV+ participants reported using marijuana for medical reasons more often than HIV- participants, but HIV+ and HIV- participants did not differ in other domains. Problematic marijuana use was associated with motives, regardless of HIV status. Motives were associated with mental and physical health functioning, but there were no interactions between motivations and HIV status. Overall this study found that motivations were similar for HIV+ and HIV- participants. Future research including qualitative work to further understand motivations would benefit the field, as would research examining the effectiveness of marijuana in treating physical symptoms.
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