Thanks, TK. I predict he'll be a short-timer on the drug threads with cites like that.
Hey, do you have a link for current state-by-state teen marijuana use? I told ole MrLeRoy that I believed Alaskan teen use rates have dropped to about the level of teen use rates in the lower 48.
http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/2k2State/html/appA.htm#taba.2
But as we've discussed before, these numbers are not really comparable. The study you talk about was one that the University of Alaska did. You can't find any info on it on the net. What they probably did was send some college kids out to interview several teens or did it by phone and then compared those numbers with the national NHSDA numbers. We don't know what ages the teens were that were surveyed in the University of Alaska study. If they weren't surveying 12 to 17 year olds then the results are really going to be skewed because older teens are much more likely than younger people to be current users of marijuana. I wouldn't trust the University of Alaska numbers at all without knowing the specifics on how their survey was conducted and where they got their numbers for comparison.