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A heck of a lot more Americans were toking up in 2012-13 than 10 years before — and not for medical reasons, either — according to a new study. The percentage of American adults who had used marijuana within the last year was 9.5 percent, the study found. That compared to 4.1 percent in 2001-02.
The study — published this week in Jama Psychiatry, a monthly journal published by the American Medical Association — was sponsored by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. It was based on in-person interviews with more than 36,000 Americans over the age of 18.
A marked shift in attitudes
With the increase in use has come an increase in the total number of what the study called “marijuana use disorders.”
But the authors of the study put that down to the increase in use: The percentage of pot smokers with such disorders actually dropped,...
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