Citation

Roppolo RH, Brooks-Russell A, Bull SS, Maffey A, Levinson A. J. Ethn. Subst. Abuse 2019; 18(3): 415-427.

Affiliation

Department of Community and Behavioral Health , Colorado School of Public Health , Aurora , Colorado.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/15332640.2017.1404954

PMID

29261477

Abstract

This study examines the extent to which knowledge of recreational marijuana laws, health effects, and perceptions of risk for marijuana use differ between Spanish- and English-speaking Latino survey respondents from a registry of Colorado adults. Spanish-speaking Latino respondents (n = 47) had less accurate knowledge of laws permitting use of marijuana than English-speaking Latino respondents (n = 154), while reporting greater agreement with negative health effects and higher perception of risk associated with marijuana use. The results suggest that efforts to communicate health and informational messaging to the public about legalized marijuana should consider linguistic variations when tailoring campaigns for Latino audiences.

Language: en

Keywords

Adults; Latino; language differences; marijuana