One year after partial legalisation in Germany: Trends in cannabis use among young people between 2008 and 2025.

Journal of health monitoring Pub Date : 2026-07-01 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI:10.25646/14268

Boris Orth, Stephanie Eckhardt, Anika Nitzsche

{"title":"One year after partial legalisation in Germany: Trends in cannabis use among young people between 2008 and 2025.","authors":"Boris Orth, Stephanie Eckhardt, Anika Nitzsche","doi":"10.25646/14268","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Background: One year after the partial legalisation of cannabis, the effects on cannabis use among young people in Germany were investigated.Methods: Based on twelve representative studies from 2008 to 2025, changes in the 12-month prevalence of cannabis use among 12- to 17-year-old adolescents and 18- to 25-year-old young adults were presented, and trends over time were estimated.Results: Among female and male adolescents as well as young women, there was no statistically significant change in the 12-month prevalence of cannabis use between 2023 and 2025. In contrast, a statistically significant increase in consumption was observed among young men. However, this does not represent a new development but rather continues a trend that has been observed in this group since 2008.Conclusions: One year after partial legalisation, there was no evidence of an immediate effect on the prevalence of cannabis use among young people in Germany. Further studies should monitor future developments.","PeriodicalId":73767,"journal":{"name":"Journal of health monitoring","volume":"11 ","pages":"11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13370656/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of health monitoring","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.25646/14268","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2026/1/1 0:00:00","PubModel":"eCollection","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Background: One year after the partial legalisation of cannabis, the effects on cannabis use among young people in Germany were investigated.

Methods: Based on twelve representative studies from 2008 to 2025, changes in the 12-month prevalence of cannabis use among 12- to 17-year-old adolescents and 18- to 25-year-old young adults were presented, and trends over time were estimated.

Results: Among female and male adolescents as well as young women, there was no statistically significant change in the 12-month prevalence of cannabis use between 2023 and 2025. In contrast, a statistically significant increase in consumption was observed among young men. However, this does not represent a new development but rather continues a trend that has been observed in this group since 2008.

Conclusions: One year after partial legalisation, there was no evidence of an immediate effect on the prevalence of cannabis use among young people in Germany. Further studies should monitor future developments.

查看原文本刊更多论文

德国大麻部分合法化一年后：2008年至2025年间年轻人吸食大麻的趋势。

背景：在大麻部分合法化一年后，对德国年轻人使用大麻的影响进行了调查。方法：基于2008年至2025年的12项代表性研究，介绍了12至17岁青少年和18至25岁年轻人中12个月大麻使用流行率的变化，并估计了随时间的趋势。结果：在女性和男性青少年以及年轻女性中，在2023年至2025年期间，大麻使用的12个月患病率没有统计学上的显着变化。相比之下，年轻男性的饮酒量在统计上显著增加。然而，这并不代表一种新的发展，而是延续了自2008年以来在这一群体中观察到的趋势。结论：在部分合法化一年后，没有证据表明对德国年轻人使用大麻的流行有直接影响。进一步的研究应监测未来的发展。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Journal of health monitoring

自引率

0.00%

发文量