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> LEGAL WEED MAKES LIFE BETTER!!!! Wrote:
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> > Here’s Why Cannabis Legalization Doesn’t
> Lead
> > to Higher Teen Use Rates
> >
> >
>
https://www.leafly.com/news/science-tech/heres-why
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> > use-ra
> >
> > When recreational marijuana laws first began
> > appearing on ballots in 2012, voices frenzied
> > around the topic of underage cannabis
> consumption.
> > Surely legalization sends a message to kids
> that
> > it’s okay for them to use cannabis, and
> surely
> > it would make it easier for them to get their
> > hands on it. Right?
> > The evidence in national surveys on drug use
> has
> > been interpreted in a variety of ways by
> analysts.
> > So what’s really going on, and more
> importantly,
> > how does this information inform drug policy
> and
> > education?
> > How Prevalent is Underage Cannabis Consumption?
> > Every year, a survey called Monitoring the
> Future
> > polls over 40,000 high school students
> nationwide
> > on their drug consumption habits. Here’s how
> > things have changed since 1996:
> >
> > As indicated in the chart, cannabis use among
> high
> > schoolers took a dip around 2008 and has slowly
> > crept upward in recent years. However, you’ll
> > notice a trend downward again after 2013.
> > Interestingly enough, that’s about when
> > Washington’s and Colorado’s legal
> recreational
> > cannabis markets debuted.
> > Colorado and Washington may have been the first
> > states to legalize recreational marijuana, but
> > medical marijuana and decriminalization laws
> have
> > emerged in dozens of states over the last two
> > decades. Changing attitudes toward cannabis are
> a
> > necessary precedent for legislative change, so
> > it’s important to keep in mind that data
> before
> > 2012 recreational laws are still relevant and
> > important. That being said, it’s significant
> > that we’ve seen an overall downward trend
> since
> > medical marijuana debuted in 1996.
> > Another notable statistic not represented in
> the
> > graph is a 6 percent decline in alcohol use
> since
> > 2002 among 12 to 17 year-olds. Tobacco also
> fell
> > from just over 15 percent to about 8 percent in
> > the same period.
> > How Easy is It for Teens to Get Cannabis?
> > Have legalization measures made cannabis easier
> > for teenagers to get marijuana? Nope – at
> least,
> > the teens themselves don’t think so. Since
> 1975,
> > over 80% of high schoolers have said that
> cannabis
> > is easy to obtain, and that figure has only
> > dropped in recent years. It isn’t hard for a
> > teenager to find a hook up, and legal outlets
> with
> > an age gate are only more likely to crush the
> > black market businesses that don’t care if
> > customers are under 21.
> > States with medical and recreational marijuana
> > laws do see higher rates of teen consumption
> –
> > they’re 27 percent more like to regularly use
> > cannabis than minors in no-access states. But
> upon
> > closer inspection, the cause-and-effect
> evidence
> > isn’t there to support this. As Washington
> > Post’s data and policy analyst Christopher
> > Ingraham puts it:
> > “Controlling for various individual-level,
> > school-level and state-level risk factors, kids
> > were no more likely to report marijuana use
> after
> > the enactment of medical marijuana laws than
> they
> > were before it….In fact, they even observed a
> > statistically significant decrease in use among
> > [eighth] graders after the passage of medical
> > marijuana bills.”
> > Does Teen Approval Correlate with Cannabis Use?
> > So if legal access to cannabis isn’t the
> > culprit, could it be the bending attitudes that
> > precede them? We asked Jospeh Palamar, PhD,
> MPH,
> > from NYU’s Department of Population Health,
> to
> > shed some light on the connection.
> > “My colleagues and I found that 10% of high
> > school seniors who had never used marijuana
> > reported intending to try it if legalized,”
> > Palamar says. “However, these are likely the
> > same teens who would eventually try marijuana a
> > year or two down the road the regardless of its
> > legal status.”
> > Another analysis published in last month’s
> > American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
> found
> > that approval rates for cannabis have dropped
> > considerably among students ages 12 to 14,
> while
> > older respondents (ages 18 to 25) exhibited
> > dramatic rises in approval since 2002. The rate
> of
> > change percentage is detailed in the chart
> below.
> >
> > What you’re seeing is a spike in disapproval
> > rates among students age 12 to 17 in 2006, and
> > thereafter approval climbs. Palamar notes,
> > “It’s important to keep in mind that use
> and
> > positive attitudes toward use appear to precede
> > legalization and not the other way around.”
> You
> > can see that in the graph — approval rates
> > increase before the passage of recreational
> > cannabis laws in 2012. This observation is
> echoed
> > by researchers in the 2015 study cited above.
> > “Put together, our results seemed to suggest
> > that the perceptions and practices of younger
> > adolescents with respect to marijuana have not
> > been negatively impacted by recent
> > marijuana-related changes in public policy and
> > perception. In fact, we observed significant
> > increases in disapproval and decreases in both
> > past year and lifetime marijuana use among this
> > important developmental subgroup.”
> > How Do We Really Discourage Underage Use?
> > The cat’s out of the bag and a domino-effect
> of
> > legalization is already underway, so it’s
> time
> > to stop blaming policy change for corrupting
> the
> > youth and really getting to the heart of the
> > problem. The real issue is that marijuana’s
> > adverse effects have historically been
> > dramatically overstated, and at some point,
> > teenagers will catch on to the B.S.
> > “Exaggerating adverse outcomes associated
> with
> > marijuana use, in my opinion, is
> > counterproductive, because if teens don’t
> > believe health messages put forth by parents,
> > teachers, and the government, then why should
> they
> > believe what they hear about other
> substances?”
> > says Palamar.
> > Drug education reform is a whole other can of
> > worms, and we’ll have to see what sort of
> trends
> > arise as recreational laws settle. Until then,
> all
> > we can do is promote honest conversations
> > supported by science about the impacts of
> cannabis
> > on younger developing brains.
> > RESEARCH
>
>
> TL DR
bumping a 4 yr old thread just to say, "too long didn't read"
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