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Michael Pierangelino
Article Purpose:
What is the purpose of the article?
The purpose of the article is to examine the Correlation Between Marijuana use, Anxiety, and
Depression. Testing for a period of 3 years with a test group of test subjects that have never had
marijuana prior to the study and abstained from all drugs and alcohol for the last 30 days for the
purpose and the purity of the results of these studies.
What was the outcome(s) of the study, that is, the conclusions that the authors made as a result of
the APA format? The outcome is that the year one use of marijuana did diminish symptoms of
depression and anxiety in year two. There is no negative effect of marijuana on depression
regardless of frequency.
In other words, what claims do the authors make in the article? The authors claim that with so
little studies done on the correlation of Marijuana use, Anxiety, and Depression they are in
uncharted territory and intend to have the results of this study published so that fellow colleagues
might review its findings to further the cause. Potentially anxiolytic and euphoriant were
expected to moderate the relationship of marijuana use to positive association.
In this particular study they are carving out their own path, because no one has studied
marijuana‘s effects on anxiety or depression. They are doing this comparative study to better
understand the effects and if positive then how effective is it in managing the symptoms?
Do you think the research in this article was conducted in an ethical manner? Why or why not?
I think the data collected in this study was ascertained in an ethical manner using the guidelines
of the APA Diagnostics research as our guide to evaluate ethical compliance. They were
respectful and empathetic when interacting with subjects and considered all their safety needs
and protection of their issues.
It was both ethical and professionally objective. I was pleased to see them take such concerns
about accuracy and validity of the results. They made good efforts to eliminate gender bias and
searching for the right blend of never sometimes all the time profile smokers to find the
representative mean of the right age group to test the mean in the most indicative dimensions.
Grunberg, V. A., Cordova, K. A., Bidwell, L. C., & Ito, T. A. (2015). Can marijuana make it
better? Prospective effects of marijuana and temperament on risk for anxiety and depression.
org.ezproxy.snhu.edu/10.1037/adb0000109.supp (Supplemental)