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.
"While it can't kill brain cells, it can damage the dendrites, which are the branch-like ends of the brain cells. Dendrites are key for passing messages from one neuron to another, so a degradation of the dendrites can cause cognitive problems." - www.brainhq.com
That's so much better. Bottoms up!
Pass the Johnny Walker Black, please...
It has only been legal in Washington and Colorado for the last 2 years. So how were these young people obtaining their weed for the past “7 or 8 years”?
All we hear about is the legal weed will end up in the hands of the chillrun but this study seems to indicate that...wait for it...They are buying it illegally!
A future study could still be skewed however because once they turn 21 then they could purchase it in the states and DC where it is now legal..
No less than a moderate pot smoker's few hits a week. As always, the dose makes the poison.
Drug-addled brains make easy targets for indoctrination.
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.
I am willing to wager that, based on your counter arguments and profile page, I am arguing with someone somewhat fond of partaking in said pot culture?
How is my response ad hominem, pray tell?
"Ad hominem circumstantial points out that someone is in circumstances such that they are disposed to take a particular position." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem#Circumstantial
Have anything to say about the actual topic of discussion - which, if you've forgotten, is the damaging effects of drugs illegal and legal?
Let me know if you want on or off!
H/T to KC_Lion!
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=ad%20hominem%20definition
Please refrain from attempting to intentionally misinterpret me.
You know what they always say:
"Assumption is the mother of all f**k ups"
If you're a black crow, you're a crow.
Please refrain from clumsy word games.
Have anything to say about the actual topic of discussion - which, if you've forgotten, is the damaging effects of drugs illegal and legal?
No, you stated that an affirmative answer was likely given my arguments: "I am willing to wager that, based on your counter arguments and profile page, I am arguing with someone somewhat fond of partaking in said pot culture?"
Now that your purported curiosity has been satisfied: Have anything to say about the actual topic of discussion - which, if you've forgotten, is the damaging effects of drugs illegal and legal?
Yes I do, kind sir.
NUTS!
Pot effects performance in the aftermath. Not the same as booze.
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