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Teen marijuana use declined this year, despite increased legalization
Red Alert Politics ^ | December 16, 2014 | Maria Santos

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cannabis; marijuana; pot; wod
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1 posted on 12/17/2014 3:10:40 PM PST by Ken H
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To: Ken H

So if we legalize meth underage usage will also go down?


2 posted on 12/17/2014 3:14:20 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: a fool in paradise

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.


3 posted on 12/17/2014 3:23:06 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Ken H

Their parents are hitting their stashes.


4 posted on 12/17/2014 3:34:35 PM PST by Iron Munro (D.H.S. has the same headcount as the US Marine Corps with twice the budget)
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To: Ken H

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


5 posted on 12/17/2014 3:37:50 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: a fool in paradise

Sure. Dead people can’t do drugs.


6 posted on 12/17/2014 3:38:04 PM PST by Politicalkiddo ("How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Politicalkiddo
Dead people can’t do drugs.

But you can smoke their ashes.

7 posted on 12/17/2014 3:38:30 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Lurking Libertarian

“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.


8 posted on 12/17/2014 3:38:33 PM PST by varyouga
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To: Ken H

Bogus survey.

No one would honestly answer that question.


9 posted on 12/17/2014 3:43:17 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: Ken H

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...


10 posted on 12/17/2014 3:49:03 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Ken H
Young people are generally rejecting drug use across the board.

Teen drug and alcohol use continues to fall, new federal data show


11 posted on 12/17/2014 3:49:13 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: jsanders2001

Why smoke it when you can vape it or eat a laced piece of candy?


12 posted on 12/17/2014 3:50:11 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: Ken H

Uh, but the use of e-cigs has increased!


13 posted on 12/17/2014 3:57:35 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Ken H

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.


14 posted on 12/17/2014 3:59:57 PM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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I’d put the causality on the lack of discretionary income...


15 posted on 12/17/2014 4:03:51 PM PST by Neidermeyer ("Our courts should not be collection agencies for crooks." — John Waihee, Governor of Hawaii, 1986-)
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To: Ken H

St Trayvon and the Gentle Giant both left the pool of consumers.


16 posted on 12/17/2014 4:19:53 PM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: a fool in paradise

The cure is worse than the disease. End the WOD now.


17 posted on 12/17/2014 4:24:45 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Good Muslims, like good Nazis or good liberals, are terrible human beings.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

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?


18 posted on 12/17/2014 4:26:41 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: a fool in paradise

How about letting the states due the work of the DEA with respect to intrastate drug regulation, per the 10th Amendment?


19 posted on 12/17/2014 4:31:21 PM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet stays on the internet.)
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To: Ken H

due = do


20 posted on 12/17/2014 4:34:59 PM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet stays on the internet.)
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