A newlywed wife appears to be in the driver's seat when it comes to determining her husband's marijuana use, University at Buffalo researchers found.
Results showed that in the first year of marriage for people in their '20s, husbands are more likely to start or resume smoking marijuana if their wives smoke it. Husbands also are more likely to stop smoking marijuana if their spouses do not smoke.
Husbands do not seem to influence their wives' marijuana smoking, according to the study published in the Journal of Drug Issues.
"For both social drinking and smoking marijuana, wives influence
husbands' use from the first to second anniversary," said study leader Kenneth E. Leonard, scientist at the university's Research Institute on Addictions.
"Although wives influence husbands' marijuana use from before marriage to the first anniversary," said Leonard, "they did not influence husbands' heavy alcohol use during that period."
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