ArticleSubstance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy2019
Keeping up with the times: how national public health and governmental organizations communicate about cannabis on Twitter.
Article in Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- #TurntTrending: a systematic review of substance use portrayals on social media platforms.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2023Pooled it
- Understanding the online landscape of cannabis discourse: a Twitter analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Twitter activity surrounding the Finnish green party's cannabis legalisation proposal: A mixed-methods analysis.Nordisk alkohol- & narkotikatidskrift : NAT · 2023Article
- The Volume and Tone of Twitter Posts About Cannabis Use During Pregnancy: Protocol for a Scoping Review.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- Geographic Differences in Cannabis Conversations on Twitter: Infodemiology Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2020Article
- The Information Sharing Behaviors of Dietitians and Twitter Users in the Nutrition and COVID-19 Infodemic: Content Analysis Study of Tweets.JMIR infodemiologyArticle
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Abstract
backgroundPublic health and governmental organizations are expected to provide guidance to the public on emerging health issues in accessible formats. It is, therefore, important to examine how such organizations are discussing cannabis online and the information that is being provided to the public about this increasingly legal and available substance.
methodsThis paper presents a concise thematic analysis of both the volume and content of cannabis-related health information from selected (n = 13) national-level public health and governmental organizations in Canada and the U.S. on Twitter.
resultsThere were eight themes identified in Tweets including 1) health-related topics; 2) legalization and legislation; 3) research on cannabis; 4) special populations; 5) driving and cannabis; 6) population issues; 7) medical cannabis, and 8) public health issues. The majority of cannabis-related Tweets from the organizations studied came from relatively few organizations and there were substantial differences between the topics covered by U.S. and Canadian organizations. The organizations studied provided limited information regarding how to use cannabis in ways that will minimize health-related harms.
conclusionsAuthoritative organizations that deal with public health may consider designing timely social media communications with emerging cannabis-related information, to benefit a general public otherwise exposed to primarily pro-cannabis content on Twitter.
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