Table 4.

Response to the prompt: Select all reasons why you have advised against cannabis purchase (n=434)

	All respondents	Non-clinicians only
Reason	n(%) (n=434)	n(%) (n=355)
Pregnancy or nursing	84 (19.4%)	62 (17.5%)
Serious mental illness (schizophrenia-bipolar disorder-psychosis)	77 (17.7%)	54 (15.2%)
Customer appeared intoxicated	69 (15.9%)	58 (16.3%)
Customer having legal problems related to cannabis	49 (11.3%)	39 (11%)
Customer having difficulty affording cannabis	39 (9%)	28 (7.9%)
Anxiety	27 (6.2%)	17 (4.8%)
Cognitive impairment (e.g.-dementia)	24 (5.5%)	19 (5.4%)
Customer needs more cannabis for the same effect	23 (5.3%)	20 (5.6%)
Customer was an older adult (age >65)	22 (5.1%)	12 (3.4%)
Customer having difficulty keeping a job	20 (4.6%)	18 (5.1%)
Customer has withdrawal symptoms	12 (2.8%)	9 (2.5%)
Depression	10 (2.3%)	6 (1.7%)
Post-traumatic stress disorder	10 (2.3%)	4 (1.1%)
Customer having relationship problem (e.g.-with partner or other close/family/friends)	10 (2.3%)	9 (2.5%)

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