Teenagers using less marijuana in age of legalization

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A new study published The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse has found that teens are using marijuana less frequently and are less attracted to it now that it is decriminalized or legalized at the state level. 

The data challenges many assumptions about how changing cannabis laws may impact children. 

Opponents of legalization often tout scientifically unsupported notions about teen marijuana use. 

For example, here in Pennsylvania, representatives from the substance abuse treatment industry, the District Attorneys Association and Pa. Fraternal Order of Police spoke during House committee hearings against allowing marijuana for medical use, in part, because they fear youth use will somehow increase. But the truth is that teen use is declining and that young people may be finding far less allure when cannabis is regulated.

 

 

The study, conducted by the University of Texas at Austin, looked at data spanning from 2002 to 2013...

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