Responsible Marijuana Sales Practices to Reduce the Risk of Selling to Intoxicated Customers

NCT06235632 | Enrolling By Invitation

• 2 other identifiers: 03471R01AA031591-01A1
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 229
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The new recreational marijuana markets are contributing to polysubstance-impaired driving and other harms, especially when marijuana is used in combination with alcohol, by selling marijuana to obviously-intoxicated customers. In this study, the effectiveness of an intervention to reduce the risk of marijuana sales to obviously-intoxicated customers will be tested in the state-licensed recreational marijuana market in Oregon, one of the first states to ban such sales. The intervention will combine efforts by state regulators to increase deterrence of the state law prohibiting marijuana sales to obviously-intoxicated customers with training of store personnel to recognize signs of intoxication and refuse sales. It will also include testing the rate at which visibly intoxicated customers are refused alcohol at nearby establishments that sell alcohol either on-site or off-site

Conditions

Alcoholic Intoxication; Automobile Accident; Cannabis

Keywords

randomized partial cross-over trial; Responsible Marijuana Vendor training

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Refusal Rate of Sales of Marijuana to Obviously-intoxicated Customers

  The rate at which establishments refuse to sell to obviously-intoxicated customers will be obtained via a pseudo-intoxicated patron (PiP) assessment

  Establishments will be evaluated by PiP assessments 4 times (including baseline) over 5 years

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Refusal Rate of Sales of Alcohol to Obviously-intoxicated Customers

  Alcohol establishments will be evaluated by PiP assessments 1 time during Year 1

Study Arms (2)

Policy and Training Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

This intervention includes the combination of a 2-hour policy meeting held by the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to teach the current laws around selling recreational marijuana as well as access to the TrainToTend program which contains 5 modules: The Laws, ID Checking, Health Effects, Customer Service, and Rules of the Trade

Behavioral: Policy and Training Intervention

Usual and Customary Policy and Training (UC-PT) (Control) Condition

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

This is basic Responsible Marijuana Vendor training currently provided by the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission and includes reading a booklet on selling recreational marijuana responsibly and passing and exam

Behavioral: Usual and Customary Policy and Training (UC-PT) (Control) Condition

Interventions

Policy and Training Intervention BEHAVIORAL

The intervention is a combination of a policy training and access to an in-depth training program to teach marijuana vendors the skills needed to refuse intoxicated customers

Policy and Training Intervention

Usual and Customary Policy and Training (UC-PT) (Control) Condition BEHAVIORAL

The active control training that is already provided to marijuana vendors by the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission

Usual and Customary Policy and Training (UC-PT) (Control) Condition

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 21 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Recreational Marijuana Stores:
• Located in the greater Portland, Oregon metropolitan area or Salem, Oregon metro area
• Hold an active recreational marijuana license from the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) as of July 1, 2022
• A retail store that sells recreational marijuana products
• Store is open for business
• Have a smart phone, tablet computer, or personal computer with Internet access
• Owner or manager consent for store to participate
• Store personnel:
• Own or employed at a state-licensed recreational marijuana store in greater Portland, Oregon or Salem, Oregon metro area
• Sell recreational marijuana products in a retail store
• Aged 21 or older (by state law)
• Able to read English
• Have a smart phone, tablet computer, or personal computer with Internet access
• Consent to participate
• Alcohol Establishments

You may not qualify if:

• Recreational Marijuana Stores:
• Have an inactive, suspended, or revoked recreational marijuana license
• Licensed to sell only medical marijuana
• Store Personnel:
• Cannot read English
• Alcohol Establishments • Have an inactive, suspended, or revoked liquor license

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA): collaborator
• Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation: collaborator
• National Opinion Research Center: collaborator
• Klein Buendel, Inc.: lead

Study Sites (1)

Klein Buendel, Inc.

Golden, Colorado, 80401, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Alcoholic Intoxication; Marijuana Abuse

Interventions

Policy

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Alcohol-Related Disorders; Substance-Related Disorders; Chemically-Induced Disorders; Mental Disorders

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Health Care Economics and Organizations

Study Officials

• Gill Woodall, PhD

  Klein Buendel, Inc.

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: CROSSOVER
• Sponsor Type: INDUSTRY
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: This is a pretest-posttest randomized control partial cross-over trial. A subsample of stores will be randomly assigned to receive the intervention while the rest will receive the control training. After the posttest assessment is conducted, the remaining control stores will receive the intervention.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 23, 2024
• First Posted: February 1, 2024
• Study Start: January 15, 2024
• Primary Completion (Estimated): July 1, 2027
• Study Completion (Estimated): August 31, 2027
• Last Updated: December 5, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-12

Locations

US (1)