Marijuana Best Practices Resource: Quick Start Guide

Welcome to the resource kit for Minnesota communities and college campuses working on marijuana use prevention. The toolkit contains tip sheets that summarize findings from scholarly literature on various aspects of marijuana use and prevention among young adults. The series was designed to support Minnesota’s Partnership For Success grantees working on marijuana use prevention on college campuses. The resource guide is organized into four categories, each described below.

Guidance Tip Sheets:

Documents that provide an overview of broad topics:

• Guidance Tip Sheet 1: Alcohol and Marijuana: Differences and Similarities
• Guidance Tip Sheet 2: Minnesota's Medical Cannabis Law
• Guidance Tip Sheet 3: A Changing Landscape: Marijuana Definitions
• Guidance Tip Sheet 4: Adverse Health Effects of Marijuana

Strategy Tip Sheets:

Documents that provide a description and resources for marijuana prevention, screening and intervention:

• Strategy Tip Sheet 5: Marijuana Prevention Strategies: Tiers of Effectiveness
• Strategy Tip Sheet 6: Screening, Brief Intervention and Therapy, and Referral (SBIR)
• Strategy Tip Sheet 7: Understanding Use Motives to Support Abstainers
• Strategy Tip Sheet 8: Marijuana Use Prevention Best Practices Bibliography

High Risk Population Tip Sheets:

Documents that provide a summary of literature on populations at greater risk for marijuana use:

• High Risk Populations Tip Sheet 9: Tobacco Users
• High Risk Populations Tip Sheet 10: First-Year Students
• High Risk Populations Tip Sheet 11: Athletes
• High Risk Populations Tip Sheet 12: Greek Life
• High Risk Populations Tip Sheet 13: LGBTQ Students
• High Risk Populations Tip Sheet 14: Mental Health

Expert Interview:

An interview with Dr. Jason Kilmer.

Dr. Kilmer is Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington, and an investigator on several studies at the Addictive Behaviors Research Center and the Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors.

• Interview Summary Sheet 15: Interview with Dr. Jason Kilmer