Tracking Dabbing Trends and Public Health Implications: A Report

This report analyzes dabbing trends in the United States, focusing on the emerging method of marijuana ingestion and its associated public health implications. The study utilizes Google Trends data from 2004 to 2015 to assess the scope and breadth of information seeking on dabbing, including related topics like electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS). The analysis explores the correlation between dabbing and ENDS searches, regional distribution of dabbing searches, and the impact of cannabis legalization policies. The findings reveal an increase in dabbing-related searches over time, with significant correlations between dabbing and vaping trends. The research underscores the importance of understanding these trends for healthcare protocol development and public health campaigns, particularly given the limited surveillance data on dabbing practices. The report highlights the need for further investigation into the potential dangers associated with dabbing and the role of social media in disseminating information about this practice.

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According to Ginart et al., (2016), marijuana stand out to be widely used drug in the
whole United States. It stand out to be the subject of countless medical and sociological studies.
This come up with certain number of potential harm which cannot be understood completely.
One of the biggest issue exploration of potential dangers association along with administration of
THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol) by smoking flowers. Both academic and public health communities
which have started to access and react on the enhanced vulnerability for marijuana edibles. It is
now legally available in some of the states and medicinal products. Any kind of changes within
the form of consumption impose huge amount of risk that is accidental ingestion of huge large
quantities. The present studies about dabbing are found to scarce while the earliest studies are
completely based on BHO which has been outside the medical marijuana user community. It is
considered to be much dangerous in comparison to other forms of used cannabis.
As per Phillips et al., (2017), academic law enforcement and health care communities
have an adequate access with behavior and its overall consequences. This behavior are
completely associated with risk not typically associated with the use of marijuana but this area of
research is completely lacking. It is very much important for the development of healthcare
protocols and public health campaigns .The present national survey in the whole United States
does not track the use of marijuana extracts. As a result of studies, the collected data from
dabbing of social media like Twitter and Facebook has included a number of findings. The
present study based on Twitter data highlighted the popularity of dabs which is much greater in
the state of legal recreation and medical use of cannabis. Dabbing search on United States was
very much common in all over United States and have increased at a rapid rate over the period of
time.

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