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A study released on Monday found that despite an increased acceptance of marijuana at city and state levels, adolescent use of the drug — as well as approval of it — is down across the country.
The study, published in the The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, looked at marijuana use among adolescents, as well as young people’s attitudes toward the drug, from 2002 to 2013. And the results were surprising.
According to the report, “The proportion of adolescents aged 12–14 reporting ‘strong disapproval’ of marijuana use initiation increased significantly from 74.4–78.9%. Concurrently, a significant decrease in past 12-month marijuana use … was observed among younger adolescents.” In that 12-14 age range, the percentage of those who had used marijuana in the past year decreased from 6 percent in 2002 to 4.5 percent in 2013. For older teens, from 15 to 17, disapproval of pot didn’t change, but the percentage of teens who had smoked weed in the previous year declined from […]
I am very happy about the results of this study. Our school system is already bad enough at trying to keep with the better results from other countries, which Stephan has mentioned in other reports. The substance does make a person forgetful, and that is not what is needed when trying to learn something in school, especially grade school and high school. I believe it is much more prevalent in colleges and universities, though which still presents a significant problem. We have to compete with the rest of the world and are falling behind and I think no one should use it until they are out of school and settled into a good job; even then it should only be used in small amounts.