LANDIM-ALMEIDA, Camila Aparecida Pinheiro; RODRIGUES, Henrique Galeno Patrício; MAGALHAES, Juliana Macêdo    FERNANDES, Márcia Astrês. Factors associated with opinions in favor of (or against) legalizing marihuana in a sample of university lecturers and students. SMAD, Rev. Eletrônica Saúde Mental Álcool Drog. (Ed. port.) []. 2016, 12, 1, pp.12-21. ISSN 1806-6976.  https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1806-6976.v12i1p12-21.

The objective was to discover factors associated with opinions in favor of (or against) legalizing marihuana in a sample of university lecturers and students. This was a cross-sectional exploratory-descriptive study with a quantitative approach, of 288 undergraduate lecturers and students in Nursing and Law in a private higher education institution in Teresina, PI. The data were collected in 2014 using a self-applied questionnaire and analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences program. The main results show that the majority were female, with a mean age of 25 years, single, Catholic and approximately 75% were against legalizing marihuana. It was concluded that, in Brazil, there is a lack of research on the topic of legalizing marihuana, especially concerning the views of lecturers and students in higher education.

: Faculty; Students; Universities; Cannabis.

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