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Despite sweeping legalization, American teens are smoking less pot than they did 15 years ago. The surprising finding comes from a Johns Hopkins-led study of high school students, published today in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
Opponents of marijuana legalization argue that normalizing marijuana use will cause the number of pot smokers to skyrocket.
“People have been very quick to say that marijuana use is going up and up and up in this country, particularly now that marijuana has become more normalized,” said study leader Renee M. Johnson, in a press statement.
According to the study, which looked at data on over 115,000 teenagers, that’s simply not the case.
Using data from the National Youth Risk Behavior Survey, the researchers found that the rate of marijuana use among high schoolers dropped from 47 to 37 percent between 1999 and 2009. While that number...
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