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“Perceived risk is usually a deterrent to use and it is clear that this deterrent has weakened considerably,” said lead investigator on the survey Lloyd Johnston. “In sum, there is a lot of good news in this year’s results, but the problems of teen substance use and abuse are still far from going away.”
The survey used responses from 40,000 students drawn from both public and private high schools and was carried out by National Institute on Drug Abuse and the University of Michigan.
Twenty-three states have introduced laws permitting medical marijuana while four states have legalized the drug’s recreational use, along with the District of Colombia. The first year that adults could legally buy weed in Colorado and Washington was 2014.
The survey comes three months after the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA) showed that nationally, 7.4 percent of young people between the ages of 12...
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