Teen odds of using marijuana dip with recreational use laws

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Teen odds of using marijuana dip with recreational use laws

By LINDSEY TANNER
July 8, 2019

CHICAGO (AP) — New research suggests legalizing recreational marijuana for U.S. adults in some states may have slightly reduced teens’ odds of using pot.

One reason may be that it’s harder and costlier for teens to buy marijuana from licensed dispensaries than from dealers, said lead author Mark Anderson, a health economist at Montana State University.

The researchers analyzed national youth health and behavior surveys from 1993 through 2017 that included questions about marijuana use. Responses from 1.4 million high school students were included.

Thirty-three states have passed medical marijuana laws and 11 have legalized recreational use — generally for ages 21 and up, many during the study years. The researchers looked at overall changes nationwide, but not at individual states.

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[Phoenix61]

1. Makes complete sense. I could buy weed

all day every day when I was in middle school but couldn’t get my hands on a beer and that was when the drinking age was 18.

[Cicada]

2. Legalizing it makes it less cool

[BigmanPigman]

3. That is what I was thinking too.

[Cicada]

4. When I worked in Saudi it was cool to drink

Westerners at the big housing complex made booze in the bathtub and drank more. It definitely was cool because it was illegal. Contrary to what you might think the Saudis, at least in 1981, tolerated westerners as long as we kept it in our little complex of 500 homes or so. We were a sealed off little world so they let us be. Because we helped make them rich beyond comprehension.

[BigmanPigman]

5. I wonder if they drink secretly.

I know that the 9/11 hijackers really lived it up in Vegas before they crashed the planes.

[Cicada]

6. Not normal people, leaders outside Saudi, often

[samnsara]

7. here in Washington State that has proven out to be true...