Daily marijuana use increased significantly among 8th, 10th, and 12th graders, according to the 2010 Monitoring the Future Survey, putting marijuana ahead of cigarette smoking by some measures. The annual survey also showed significant increases in use of Ecstasy and continued nonmedical us...
Marijuana use is about the same as it was in 2015, with around 24 percent of teenagers trying pot at least once within the past year, the survey revealed. This may not seem like a win, but it actually is, Compton said. There's been no increase in teens using pot, even though marij...
Another study published in 2021 indicated that teens who vape are also more likely toengage in risky sexual behaviors, such as drinking alcohol before intercourse, not using a condom during sex, or having multiple partners at an early age. Teen Vaping Risks Vaping and marijuana use carry signifi...
For instance, marijuana abusers who began using the drug before age 14 developed a substance abuse or dependency issue 11.5 percent of the time, while those who waited until after age 18 were classified with substance abuse or dependency only 2.6 percent of the time.[26] Just because a ...
We’ve begun a series of interviews with teens, starting with two volunteers in our predominantly white community who answered questions we posed to them concerning drug use in high school, racism, sexism, white privilege, and their experience as teens in 2017 in a US dominated by a Donald ...
The number of teens diagnosed annually with marijuana intoxication or testing positive for pot during a drug screen at Children's Hospital Colorado rose from 146 in 2005 to 639 in 2014. The findings run counter to national surveys that have shown no increase inteenage pot usein states where re...
Marijuana use appeared to level off after recent increases, with 6.5 percent of eighth-graders reporting past-month use, 17 percent of 10th-graders and 21 percent of 12th-graders. Nearly 6 percent of 12th-graders reported daily use. Fewer teens are trying synthetic marijuana, highly dangerous dr...
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LaPook sat down with Dr. Stephen Ross, director of addiction psychiatry at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York, to discuss what the science actually says about marijuana. (See their earlier discussion of a study that foundlegalization may lead to more teens smoking pot.) ...
Approximately 4 percent of the teens' mothers hadexperienced depression symptomswhen the kids were aged 6 to 10. Children of those mothers were about twice as likely to start smoking oruse marijuanacompared to children of mothers with few symptoms of depression throughout the kids' childhood, the...