Cannabis as entheogen: survey and interview data on the spiritual use of cannabis

Table 7 Consequences of cannabis use among 200 Internet survey respondents in linear multivariate regression models

	Physical health			Psychological health			Spiritual practice			Ability to get along with people			Personal happiness
	B	SE	p	B	SE	p	B	SE	p	B	SE	p	B	SE	p
Intercept	2.70	.88	**	2.72	.94	**	3.11	.89	*******	1.69	1.03		1.55	.96
Age	-.02	.05		.04	.06		-.11	.05	*	-.09	.06		-.07	.06
Gender (M)	-.32	.15	*	-.35	.16	*	.00	.15		-.04	.17		.03	.16
Education	-.01	.05		.07	.05		.01	.05		.02	.06		.04	.05
Extraversion	.04	.04		.02	.04		.01	.04		.03	.04		.07	.04
Conscientiousness	.15	.05	*******	.12	.05	**	.14	.05	**	.13	.05	*	.13	.05	**
Openness	.01	.06		.12	.06		.05	.06		.02	.07		.14	.06	*
Agreeableness	.02	.04		.02	.05		-.07	.04		.03	.05		-.02	.05
Emotional stability	.05	.04		.06	.05		-.00	.05		-.02	.05		.04	.05
Risk taking	.01	.01		.01	.01		.01	.01		.01	.01		.01	.01
Alcohol use	-.06	.05		-.04	.05		-.03	.05		-.04	.06		-.08	.05
Amphetamine use	-.05	.06		-.04	.06		-.01	.06		-.02	.07		-.09	.07
Cigarette/tobacco use	.02	.03		.01	.04		.01	.03		.04	.04		.07	.04
Cocaine use	-.02	.12		-.05	.13		.04	.13		.22	.15		.06	.14
Opiate use	-.08	.06		-.23	.07	*******	-.14	.07	*	-.18	.06	*	-.19	.07	**
Psychedelics use 12 months	-.02	.03		-.03	.03		-.03	.03		.01	.04		-.01	.03
Years of cannabis experience	.01	.05		-.03	.05		.00	.05		.04	.06		.02	.05
Cannabis use 12 months	.06	.02	**	.11	.02	*******	.05	.02	*	.08	.02	**	.11	.02	*******
Escapist motivation	-.10	.13		-.37	.14	**	-.14	.13		-.37	.15	*	-.34	.14	*
Spiritual motivation	.19	.13		.30	.13	*	.51	.13	*******	.07	.15		.07	.14

Note: N = 200. Results from linear multivariate regression models. Each model contains 19 independent variables: age, gender (coded as male = 1), education (quantified from 1 = “Have not completed high school” to 6 = “PhD”), the Big Five personality traits, the overall Risk Taking score (RTI), five variables for current drug use (quantified from 1 = “Daily” to 5 = “Never”), two variables for the number of use occasions for psychedelics and cannabis over the last 12 months, a variable for the number of years of cannabis experience (quantified from 1 = “Less than a year” to 5 = “10+ years”), a dichotomous variable for escapist motivation, and a dichotomous variable for spiritual motivation. Results from five models are shown, one for each of five dependent variables: physical health (model adjusted R-square = .12), psychological health (model adjusted R-square = .26), spiritual practice (model adjusted R-square = .14), sociability (model adjusted R-square = .11), and personal happiness (model adjusted R-square = .24). Values in bold represent statistically significant associations. B = unstandardized regression coefficient, SE = standard error, * p <= .05, ** p <= .01, *** p <= .001

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