Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Keywords
Cannabis, College students, Legalization, Recreational use
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Innovative Higher Education
First Page
1
Last Page
21
Abstract
Within the United States, attitudes toward cannabis consumption, especially among college students, have grown increasingly positive. Parallel to this trend, various additional social, cultural, and legal shifts have continued to occur in support of open cannabis consumption, though not without potential consequences. This phenomenological qualitative study explored undergraduate college students’ (n = 22) a priori experiences with cannabis use in states with legalized recreational cannabis. Findings in this study suggested a general lack of knowledge regarding cannabis consumption within the surrounding legal framework but a desire to practice safe consumption and receive a more meaningful education. Recommendations for practice included the need for higher education institutions to increase education on safe practices and challenge stigma and misperceptions surrounding cannabis.
Department
Department of Educational Psychology, Foundations, and Leadership Studies
Original Publication Date
6-19-2025
Object Description
1 PDF File
DOI of published version
10.1007/s10755-025-09821-0
Repository
UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa
Copyright
©2025 The Author(s)
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Sasso, Pietro A. and Price-Williams, Shelley, "Land of the Free, Home of the Blazed: Legalized Recreational Cannabis Among Undergraduate College Students" (2025). Faculty Publications. 6854.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facpub/6854
Comments
First published in Innovative Higher Education, (2025), published by Springer Nature. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10755-025-09821-0