UW News

Katarina Guttmannova


December 29, 2015

No easy answers in UW study of legal marijuana’s impact on alcohol use

Does legal marijuana tempt pot users to consume more alcohol — or are they likely to opt for cannabis instead of chardonnay? A University of Washington team of researchers sought to address those questions in the context of evolving marijuana policies in the United States. Their findings, published online Dec. 21 in the journal Alcoholism:…