Report finds Marijuana Use Disorders on the rise

As I and my colleagues have predicted so very, very often, the Marijuana Use Disorders have more than doubled in the past decade on the heels of relaxed legislation concerning the drug, and the increase in use of the substance among our youth and adults.

I know that there are those out there who have read my previous articles on marijuana, and say, “Dr. Jones, aren’t you beating a dead horse?” I assure you all that I am surely not. The horse is very much alive and kicking, and the more we make ourselves aware, the better.

Recent studies as reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association relate the increase of the disorder, more than doubling in the past 12 years, from 4.1 percent to 9.5 percent. Believe me when I tell you that this percentage represents millions of our young people and adults in the population with...

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