Teen drug and alcohol use continues to fall, new federal data show
Posted on 12/17/2014 3:10:40 PM PST by Ken H
A favorite argument of the anti-marijuana crowd is that legalization would send the wrong signal to the youth and make them think drugs are good for them. Except that, with increasing legalization across the country, that hasn’t happened yet.
In fact, teen drug use decreased in 2014, according to a study by the University of Michigan and the National Institutes on Drug Abuse. The same year Colorado and Washington’s legalization was in full swing, while two states and the District of Columbia all passed some form of legalization.
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Also notable: according to the study, marijuana has gotten slightly more difficult for teens to obtain. “Reported availability, on the other hand, is down significantly since 2013 in the two lower grades (and unchanged in 12th grade), which may help to explain the modest decline in use this year.”
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So if we legalize meth underage usage will also go down?
Licensed dealers check IDs, because they will lose their license if they don’t. Illegal dealers don’t care. That’s why, where pot is illegal, it’s easier for kids to get pot than alcohol.
Their parents are hitting their stashes.
Because they got to see what it’s effects would look like 20 years down the road on their liberal parents...check states like CA, OR, WA, and now CO
Sure. Dead people can’t do drugs.
But you can smoke their ashes.
“That’s why, where pot is illegal, it’s easier for kids to get pot than alcohol.”
That was 100% true when I was a teen. Everyone smoked pot long before they drank heavily.
Since drug dealers are already doing something illegal, they don’t care about selling to kids. Legalization pushes illegal dealers from the market and brings legal businesses in.
It would be foolish for a legal business to sell to kids when 99% of their customers with real money to spend are adults.
Bogus survey.
No one would honestly answer that question.
I’m shocked at how common pot smoking is with high schoolers today; it was around when I was younger, but today it is everywhere here in NJ. It gets buried in the heroin news, though...
Teen drug and alcohol use continues to fall, new federal data show
Why smoke it when you can vape it or eat a laced piece of candy?
Uh, but the use of e-cigs has increased!
I have kids and I have just asked them about this .
They all said it’s because most kids now know that drugs including weed are bad for you and only losers/lazy people use drugs.
I’d put the causality on the lack of discretionary income...
St Trayvon and the Gentle Giant both left the pool of consumers.
The cure is worse than the disease. End the WOD now.
And let the ATF do the work of the DEA? Or are formerly prohibited drugs going to be exempted from the taxes imposed on smokes and drinks?
How about letting the states due the work of the DEA with respect to intrastate drug regulation, per the 10th Amendment?
due = do
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