Cannabis Use – Health Care Professionals

The goal of our clinical guidelines is to provide guidance to clinicians on preventing the development of Cannabis Use Disorder (CUD) and optimally assessing and treating older adults who have developed such a disorder. Older adults, have a higher lifetime prevalence of use and past year use of cannabis than any generation that precedes them (Simoni-Wastila & Yang, 2006). This increased lifetime exposure, coupled with the recent legalization of non-medical cannabis use in Canada and subsequent increase in public interest, has driven the need for health care professionals to be aware of the most recent research on the use of cannabis for medical and non-medical purposes.