Project

CYDS Netherlands

Project Description

This supplemental project was conducted collaboratively by researchers from SDRG and from the Verwey-Jonker Institute, the Netherlands Institute for Care and Welfare, and Tilburg University. It expanded the scope of the parent project to compare and contrast U.S. and Netherlands data on student cannabis use.

This project compared cannabis and other drug use prevalence as well as levels of risk and protective factors experienced by adolescents from two countries that have very different national policies regarding cannabis. The U.S. policy approach toward marijuana use has been weighted toward no tolerance and punishment, while depenalization of cannabis use has yielded an explicitly tolerant, harm-minimization stance toward cannabis use in the Netherlands.

This supplemental project also allowed an assessment of the common and unique barriers and outcomes of implementing the Communities That Care (CTC) strategic prevention framework in different cultural and policy contexts.