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Posted on 09/02/2015 8:54:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The percentage of daily and near-daily pot users from the 2014 survey was the highest ever recorded.
More U.S. college students are making a habit of using marijuana, which has supplanted cigarettes as the smoke-able substance of choice among undergraduates who light up regularly, a study released Tuesday found.
Just under 6 percent of the full-time students surveyed by University of Michigan researchers for the annual "Monitoring the Future" study reported using pot either every day or at least 20 times in the previous 30 days.
By contrast, 5 percent of respondents identified themselves as heavy cigarette smokers, a steep decline from the 19 percent who said they smoked daily in 1999. The findings suggest that teenagers and young adults have absorbed public health warnings about the dangers of cigarettes but increasingly regard marijuana as benign or carrying few risks, lead investigator Lloyd Johnston said.
"It's clear that for the past seven or eight years there has been an increase in marijuana use among the nation's college students," Johnston said. "And this largely parallels an increase we have been seeing among high school seniors."
The University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research has surveyed a nationally representative sample of full-time college students about their drug and alcohol use every year since 1980. \ The percentage of daily and near-daily pot users from the 2014 survey was the highest ever recorded and marked the first time that regular weed consumption outpaced habitual cigarette use, the study states.
Twenty-one percent of the college students surveyed said they had used marijuana at least once during the previous month, and 34 percent said they had used it in the past year.
The survey also showed that fewer students are abusing alcohol. Just 5 percent of respondents said they had engaged in extreme binge drinking — defined by the researchers as having had 15 or more drinks in a row at least once in the previous two weeks.
The number of students reporting they had used cocaine in the previous year increased from 2.7 percent in 2013 to 4.4 percent in 2014. Johnston called the increase statistically significant, but said it was too soon to know if the drug was actually making a comeback on college campuses.
Parents sending their children to college this fall can take comfort in another of the survey's findings, Johnston said: Half of the survey respondents said they had not used any illicit drugs in the past year.
The college administrators will turn a blind eye when students violate drug laws, but become manic enforcers if campus speech codes are violated.
At least we know who will be defaulting on their share of $1 Trillion in student debt.
Now days you would probably be in a. Lot of trouble if you were caught smoking cigarettes on a campi
“At least we know who will be defaulting on their share of $1 Trillion in student debt.”
Indeed. And they’re gonna act all shocked that they can’t land a job with their Bachelor of Arts Degrees in Illicit Drug Consumption.
Stop Smoking campaigns don’t include MJ.
was this a 1976 study???
I’m shocked at how common pot smoking is with high school students; clean kids should have the pick of the jobs...
If I was forced to take classes in gender/ethnic studies and sit through umpteen diatribes on the virtues of communism, I’d be getting stoned, too.
Pot Ping!
Dave’s not here.
Pot is a mind alternating; degrading your performance, and it is brain damaging drug and it is full of tar when smoked.
The other drug, nicotine, is not mind altering, but is addictive and will kill you over time via it’s filthy delivery method (tar).
Neither are good for you, but the mind altering, brain damaging one is more destructive than the other.
As is alcohol.
As cigarette usage declines the government will look at new ways to tax its citizens.
I never heard it caused lung cancer. I did read recently of a study that found brain function is reduced in teens and young adults who engage in regular pot smoking - permanently. That means brain damage.
Pot should never be confused with ciggs. in the minds of users. Pot is brain and mind altering and ciggs are not. Adults should not represent pot to young people as being harmless for them. Anyone who needs quick reactions (driving), focus (driving) and high brain function (work), should consider only recreational pot use.
I am sure you know that some pot is more potent than others and it’s important to know what you are doing to measure the degree of handicap you are dealing with.
"Dude...uh...wait.....uh....what?"
Legalization for minors is not on the table. And since young people report that they can get pot more easily than beer or cigarettes, it seems that the best way to keep pot out of their hands is to legalize it for adults; sellers of legal drugs typically card minors, whereas sellers of illegal drugs never do.
Adults should not represent pot to young people as being harmless for them.
I can't remember the last time I saw anyone claim that pot is harmless; currently that seems to be a straw man that the Reefer Madness brigade likes to beat rather than address legalizers' actual arguments.
some pot is more potent than others and it’s important to know what you are doing to measure the degree of handicap you are dealing with.
Labeling requirements can be effectively enforced only in a legal market.
Alcohol does not damage brain cells.
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