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U.S. Teens Using More Marijuana, Less Alcohol
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villian
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Good for them
morbiddoctor
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That's good news! Compared to ingesting alcohol, I'd much rather have my kid smoking buds.
spini4
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More teens smoking pot than cigarettes
WASHINGTON — More U.S. teens may be smoking marijuana than cigarettes but fewer are binge-drinking, federal health officials said Tuesday.
An annual survey on drug use found increases in marijuana use among all age groups but showed slightly fewer high school seniors were smoking than in recent years.
"These high rates of marijuana use during the teen and pre-teen years, when the brain continues to develop, place our young people at particular risk," National Institute for Drug Abuse director Dr. Nora Volkow said in a statement.
"Not only does marijuana affect learning, judgment, and motor skills, but research tells us that about one in six people who start using it as adolescents become addicted."
The survey of 46,482 students from 396 schools found that 16 percent of eighth-graders, typically 13 and 14 years old, admitted to using marijuana, up from 14.5 percent in 2009.
More than 21 percent of high school seniors, aged 17 and 18, said they had used marijuana in the past 30 days, while 19.2 percent said they smoked cigarettes. This is the first time marijuana use has passed cigarette use in the survey.
The survey found binge drinking, defined as having five drinks or more in a row, was down. Just over 23 percent of high school seniors admitted to binge drinking in the past two weeks, compared to 25 percent in 2009 and 31.5 percent in 1998.
The survey found more than 6 percent of high school seniors use marijuana every day, up from 5 percent last year. More than 3 percent of 10th graders and 1 percent of eighth graders said they used marijuana daily, all increases over 2009.
Federal officials were most upset by the marijuana data and said teens may be confused about whether marijuana is safe and acceptable because several states have recently legalized the use of marijuana with a doctor's prescription.
"Mixed messages about drug legalization, particularly marijuana, may be to blame. Such messages certainly don't help parents who are trying to prevent kids from using drugs," said Gil Kerlikowske, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
"We should examine the extent to which the debate over medical marijuana and marijuana legalization for adults is affecting teens' perceptions of risk," Volkow added.
Read more at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40662121/ns/health-addictions/
WASHINGTON — More U.S. teens may be smoking marijuana than cigarettes but fewer are binge-drinking, federal health officials said Tuesday.
An annual survey on drug use found increases in marijuana use among all age groups but showed slightly fewer high school seniors were smoking than in recent years.
"These high rates of marijuana use during the teen and pre-teen years, when the brain continues to develop, place our young people at particular risk," National Institute for Drug Abuse director Dr. Nora Volkow said in a statement.
"Not only does marijuana affect learning, judgment, and motor skills, but research tells us that about one in six people who start using it as adolescents become addicted."
The survey of 46,482 students from 396 schools found that 16 percent of eighth-graders, typically 13 and 14 years old, admitted to using marijuana, up from 14.5 percent in 2009.
More than 21 percent of high school seniors, aged 17 and 18, said they had used marijuana in the past 30 days, while 19.2 percent said they smoked cigarettes. This is the first time marijuana use has passed cigarette use in the survey.
The survey found binge drinking, defined as having five drinks or more in a row, was down. Just over 23 percent of high school seniors admitted to binge drinking in the past two weeks, compared to 25 percent in 2009 and 31.5 percent in 1998.
The survey found more than 6 percent of high school seniors use marijuana every day, up from 5 percent last year. More than 3 percent of 10th graders and 1 percent of eighth graders said they used marijuana daily, all increases over 2009.
Federal officials were most upset by the marijuana data and said teens may be confused about whether marijuana is safe and acceptable because several states have recently legalized the use of marijuana with a doctor's prescription.
"Mixed messages about drug legalization, particularly marijuana, may be to blame. Such messages certainly don't help parents who are trying to prevent kids from using drugs," said Gil Kerlikowske, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
"We should examine the extent to which the debate over medical marijuana and marijuana legalization for adults is affecting teens' perceptions of risk," Volkow added.
Read more at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40662121/ns/health-addictions/
spini4
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Teen Marijuana, Ecstasy Use Up
More teens are smoking marijuana and using ecstasy than they were last year, according to a report released today (Dec. 14).
Fueled by increases in marijuana use, the rate of eighth-graders saying they have used an illicit drug in the past year jumped to 16 percent, up from last year's 14.5 percent, with daily marijuana use up in all grades surveyed, the researchers found. [Related: Fake Weed Causing Hallucinations in Teens]
Gil Kerlikowske, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, said the findings are disappointing regarding upward trends found. "Mixed messages about drug legalization, particularly marijuana, may be to blame. Such messages certainly don't help parents who are trying to prevent kids from using drugs," Kerlikowske said in a statement.
The results are part of the Monitoring the Future Survey, an annual series of classroom surveys of eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders conducted by a team of social scientists at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, and funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health.
In 2010, more than 46,000 eighth-, 10th-, and 12th-graders who were enrolled in nearly 400 secondary public and private schools participated in the study.
Daily marijuana use increased among all grades studied from 2009 to 2010, with use among seniors (at 6.1 percent) at its highest since the early 1980s. One possible explanation for the resurgence in marijuana use is that in recent years fewer teens report seeing much danger associated with its use, even with regular use, the researchers report. Possibly as a result, fewer teens have shown disapproval of marijuana use over the past two or three years. Both perceived risk and disapproval continued to decline in all three grades this year, the team said.
While seniors' cigarette-smoking declined from last year, their pot-smoking went up, with about 21 percent saying they'd used marijuana in the past 30 days and 19.2 percent indicated they'd smoked cigarettes this year.
After marijuana, prescription and over-the-counter drugs accounted for most of the top drugs abused by 12th-graders in the past year.
And after several years of decline due to concerns about health dangers, current and past-year use of ecstasy has risen among some students, increasing from 1.3 percent to 2.4 percent for eighth-graders and from 3.7 percent to 4.7 percent among 10th-graders between 2009 and 2010.
"There may well be a generational forgetting of the dangers of ecstasy as newer cohorts of youth enter adolescence," said Lloyd Johnston, the principal investigator of the study. "They have heard less about the dangers of the drug than did their predecessors, because they were quite young when the original ecstasy epidemic occurred." Consistent with this notion, perceived risk is now considerably lower among the younger teens than the older ones, the report showed.
Read more at: http://www.livescience.com/health/teen-drug-use-marijuana-ecstasy-up-101214.html
More teens are smoking marijuana and using ecstasy than they were last year, according to a report released today (Dec. 14).
Fueled by increases in marijuana use, the rate of eighth-graders saying they have used an illicit drug in the past year jumped to 16 percent, up from last year's 14.5 percent, with daily marijuana use up in all grades surveyed, the researchers found. [Related: Fake Weed Causing Hallucinations in Teens]
Gil Kerlikowske, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, said the findings are disappointing regarding upward trends found. "Mixed messages about drug legalization, particularly marijuana, may be to blame. Such messages certainly don't help parents who are trying to prevent kids from using drugs," Kerlikowske said in a statement.
The results are part of the Monitoring the Future Survey, an annual series of classroom surveys of eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders conducted by a team of social scientists at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, and funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health.
In 2010, more than 46,000 eighth-, 10th-, and 12th-graders who were enrolled in nearly 400 secondary public and private schools participated in the study.
Daily marijuana use increased among all grades studied from 2009 to 2010, with use among seniors (at 6.1 percent) at its highest since the early 1980s. One possible explanation for the resurgence in marijuana use is that in recent years fewer teens report seeing much danger associated with its use, even with regular use, the researchers report. Possibly as a result, fewer teens have shown disapproval of marijuana use over the past two or three years. Both perceived risk and disapproval continued to decline in all three grades this year, the team said.
While seniors' cigarette-smoking declined from last year, their pot-smoking went up, with about 21 percent saying they'd used marijuana in the past 30 days and 19.2 percent indicated they'd smoked cigarettes this year.
After marijuana, prescription and over-the-counter drugs accounted for most of the top drugs abused by 12th-graders in the past year.
And after several years of decline due to concerns about health dangers, current and past-year use of ecstasy has risen among some students, increasing from 1.3 percent to 2.4 percent for eighth-graders and from 3.7 percent to 4.7 percent among 10th-graders between 2009 and 2010.
"There may well be a generational forgetting of the dangers of ecstasy as newer cohorts of youth enter adolescence," said Lloyd Johnston, the principal investigator of the study. "They have heard less about the dangers of the drug than did their predecessors, because they were quite young when the original ecstasy epidemic occurred." Consistent with this notion, perceived risk is now considerably lower among the younger teens than the older ones, the report showed.
Read more at: http://www.livescience.com/health/teen-drug-use-marijuana-ecstasy-up-101214.html
BUT ??? What assholes.
Their use of the word "but" indicates that smoking cigarettes is better for kids than smoking weed.
Str8 dicks. This makes me mad.
slimvictor
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I feel the urge...
the urge to merge.
the urge to merge.
pr0d1gy
Bluelighter
It makes sense to me. In highschool EVERYONE i knew smoked weed and very few drank. I think their is a bit of a generation gap between most kids and their parents views today. I think older people accept alcohol and are scared of marijuana but many younger people consider marijuana safer and prefer it. Its really amazing the difference in how older/younger generations think of marijuana.
I would like to think that means it will be legalized/decriminalized more widespread in the next decade or two.
I would like to think that means it will be legalized/decriminalized more widespread in the next decade or two.
slimvictor
Bluelight Crew
Same here.
Alcohol is far, far more dangerous than cannabis.
Alcohol is deadening while cannabis is (or can be) enlivening.
I would rather have my kids driving sober, but if they are going to drive after partying, I would rather they drive while high 100 times than while drunk once.
Really? 6 percent of seniors report using in the past year? What kind of statistics are these? When i was a senior in Highschool (last year) i could safely say 60%, probably more, had smoked weed at some point. These surveys aren't very convincing (considering kids don't give a rats ass about telling the truth in drug surveys.) But i guess it's the best we can do.
I too wonder about the latest psychedelic use trends. I bet there is statistics out there somewhere, anyone got any ?
Jabberwocky
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Fantastic.
ABCDFG I Ate The E
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We had to take these things in school..
Almost half of my grade smokes weed.
Almost half of my grade smokes weed.
halperdude
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Wooh go weed!
B.A.S.
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Good to hear, they make this sound like this is a bad thing! Weed is quite safe and healthy for you, where as drinking is a depressant and causes deaths....good for weed!
i roll balls
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Good, but ecstasy.. no bueno 
Alcohol is the most dangerous drug around due to it's widespread use and acceptance in my opinion. So less drinking=better living for adolescents especially. Potheads don't get in fights when they smoke too much, they don't drive recklessly, they don't beat their wife and kids, well, they don't really do much of anything, but that's certainly better than what people do when drunk lol.