Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Well, if you want to increase drug use among the young, make it legal. Right?-----Regular marijuana use among college students at a three-decade high, survey says

Regular marijuana use among college students at a three-decade high, survey says | MLive.com:
"By 2013, that rate was up to 39 percent, meaning that 429 of the 1,100 students surveyed said they had used one or more drugs in the 12 months preceding the survey.
The study pointed out that daily or near-daily use of marijuana – defined as 20 or more occasions of use in the prior 30 days – has been on the rise.
The recent low was 3.5 percent in 2007, but the rate had risen to 5.1 percent by 2013.
"This is the highest rate of daily use observed among college students since 1981 – a third of a century ago,"
Lloyd Johnston, the principal investigator of the MTF study, said in a statement.
"In other words, one in every 20 college students was smoking pot on a daily or near-daily basis in 2013, including one in every 11 males and one in every 34 females.
To put this into a longer-term perspective, from 1990 to 1994, fewer than one in 50 college students used marijuana that frequently."

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