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Saturday, December 19th, 2015

Legal weed having little effect on teen marijuana use, federal data shows

Author:     Christopher Ingraham
Source:     The Washington Post
Publication Date:     December 18 at 2:28 PM
 Link: Legal weed having little effect on teen marijuana use, federal data shows
Stephan:   It should be obvious to even the dullest that the legal integration of marijuana into the culture has produced none of the catastrophes predicted. Indeed, rather the opposite. SR has been covering this from the beginning and this report once again describes no evidence for rampant increases or abuse. Marijuana is not the drug problem in this country. Read the next report.
A marijuana poster is on display at the High Times Gala at the W Hotel in Washington, D.C Credit: Ben Terris /The Washington Post

A marijuana poster is on display at the High Times Gala at the W Hotel in Washington, D.C
Credit: Ben Terris /The Washington Post

Federal data released this week found there was no change in monthly marijuana use in nearly every U.S. state compared to last year. The only significant changes were in Rhode Island, Ohio and Hawaii, where monthly marijuana use fell year over year.

The latest state-level data, which asks participants if they used marijuana in the past month, is particularly useful, as it covers the first year of legal recreational marijuana in Colorado and Washington. While the rate of monthly teen marijuana use did tick upward in those states, the change wasn’t statistically significant, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), which released the […]

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