Teen Drug Use on the Rise [w/poll]
National survey also finds that teen drinking is at 30-year low.
A national study conducted as part of a research grant from the National Institutes of Health finds that teen marijuana use has risen for the fourth straight year while teen drinking has continued to decline.
The study—Monitoring the Future, conducted by the Michigan’s Institute for Social Resarch—found that daily marijuana use was at a 30-year high among teens and that marijuana in general was also increasing.
The study found that 6.6 percent of 12th-graders use marijuana every day or nearly every day and that one in four students in grades eight, 10 and 12 used marijuana during the previous year. In addition, one in nine high school seniors (11.4 percent) reported using synthetic marijuana in the prior 12 months.
Drug use over all has risen over the last four years with half of the high school seniors surveyed reporting having tried an illicit drug and 40 percent reporting using one in the last 12 months.
The survey results were released today and included interviews with 47,000 eighth-, 10th-, and 12th-grade students in 400 public and private secondary schools.
Chas Holman
10:39 am on Thursday, December 15, 2011
It's a good thing..
Silly grass has been blamed for being the 'gateway' drug for decades..
Clearly this demonstrates what most of us already knew..
Given more availability to 'grass' kids would rather use it than other harder drugs like alcohol, vicodin, meth and tobacco.
The MOST alarming thing to me.. is knowing kids are trying grass over all other drugs.. is that the government has scheduled cannabis in such a way.. that when a kid tries it and thinks 'not that big od a deal'.. they might be ENTICED to try dangerous life threatening drugs like cocaine and methamphetamine, because the US government CLEARLY suggests those drugs have a value to society and are far less dangerous for them than the higher scheduled marijuana.
In fact it is now clear the US scheduling of marijuana is the gateway that has kids doing much worse drugs, but knowing the government says they are less dangerous and they will get less of a criminal penalty if caught.
This is nonsense.. this 'lying' about the scheduling of marijuana entices kids to try much harder drugs the the government has lied to them about being SAFER than marijuana.
Winston
4:47 am on Friday, December 16, 2011
Like Chas...wow man.dude...like man you are so gnarly dude man...like what do these dudes think we will do man like smoke dope drink and drive? Like dude man...um...er...duh...what was this post about?