Flavored Cannabis Product Use among Adolescents in California

Abstract

Given the well-documented role of flavors in encouraging to- bacco use among adolescents and diversity of the cannabis market, we describe flavored cannabis product use, both smoked and aero- solized (“vaped”), among a sample of adolescents. We surveyed 1,423 students in 8 Northern and Central California public high schools (2019–2020) to record flavored tobacco and cannabis use. Among past 30-day cannabis users, use of flavored cannabis, most often fruit-flavored, was common for smoked (48.1%) and vaped (58.0%) products. Given that youth-appealing flavors may contrib- ute to underage cannabis use, emerging cannabis control policies should consider lessons from tobacco control to prevent youth cannabis use.