Public opinion and medical cannabis policies: examining the role of underlying beliefs and national medical cannabis policies

Table 3 Regression models predicting support for medical cannabis legalization (n = 2803)

Predictors	Model 1			Model 2			Model 3
Predictors	Coeff.	Robust S.E.	p value	Coeff.	Robust S.E.	p value	Coeff.	Robust S.E.	p value
Demographics
Male	0.143	0.054	0.007	0.114	0.041	0.005
Age (referent: age category 18–29)
Age 30–44	0.100	0.075	0.185	−0.036	0.057	0.529
Age 45–59	0.133	0.073	0.068	0.038	0.055	0.496
Age 60+	−0.152	0.081	0.062	−0.065	0.064	0.303
Education (referent: primary)
Secondary	−0.002	0.087	0.979	−0.132	0.074	0.077
Higher education	0.135	0.086	0.118	0.029	0.076	0.702
Behaviour
Last month alcohol use	0.186	0.062	0.003	0.144	0.046	0.002
Last year cannabis use	0.892	0.081	<0.001	0.087	0.072	0.226
National policies
Israel	0.712	0.061	<0.001	0.054	0.061	0.375
Beliefs
Cannabis has medical benefits				0.732	0.018	<0.001
Medical cannabis is addictive				0.016	0.019	0.399
Medical cannabis legalization leads to increased cannabis use				−0.236	0.033	<0.001
Interaction terms
Israel, cannabis has medical benefits							−0.625	0.052	<0.001
Israel, medical cannabis is addictive							0.235	0.049	<0.001
Israel, medical cannabis legalization leads to increased cannabis use							0.553	0.071	<0.001

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