Abstract
It is customarily challenging and fruitless to prevent young adults and teens from drug experimentation. Yet, the onset of marijuana or cannabis use by school-age young adults and teens could be delayed with holistic interventions that aim at involving stakeholders (that is schools, families, agencies, media, etc.). The objective of this review was to sum-up continental comparative data on the prevalence of cannabis or marijuana use among young adults. Although continental studies on the prevalence, causes, effects, and preventions of marijuana use are limited, there is evidence to suggest that marijuana use is still on the rise among young people globally, especially in Africa, Europe, and America. False gratification such as, its harmless effects, its ability to aid performance, and its ability to protect one against superstitious forces are factors among others that lead adolescents to its experimentation. Key words: Adolescents, marijuana, cannabis, prevalence.
Highlights
In the past 2 to 5-decade, adolescents’ narcotic drug abuse and addiction have emerged as a thematic social canker affecting both developed and developing countries of the world due to its possibilities of triggering behavioral problems ranging from addiction to dependence that does affect health and model the users functioning and leave the societies in which they live at risk
The use of the narcotic substance by young people between 10 and 24 years of age has been cited as affecting the developmental phase that occurs as the brain ripen and undergoes through emotional and cognitive maturity (Degenhardt et al, 2016)
There is persistent evidence to suggest that the increasing legalization of marijuana or cannabis has contributed to the forced belief that marijuana is harmless during adolescence
Summary
The use of the narcotic substance by young people between 10 and 24 years of age has been cited as affecting the developmental phase that occurs as the brain ripen and undergoes through emotional and cognitive maturity (Degenhardt et al, 2016). One of such substance that is associated with the forenamed menace to adolescents and societies is marijuana. The turnover is advancing faster as several states and nations have or are amending regulations to soften restricted laws against its use and production; thereby leaving adolescents at the receiving end. On its production and cultivation, between 1998-2007, the Report on Global Illicit Market (2009) reported that marijuana is produced in over 170 countries around the world and its market uninterruptedly continued to receive
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