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June 16th, 2015 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Despite fears that legalizing marijuana would lead to more use among teens, new data on 1 million teenagers shows that pot use has not increased in US states where the drug is now permitted.
Over a 24-year period, 1 million teens were asked in national,
annual self-administered surveys whether they had used marijuana
in the previous 30 days. The research involved teens aged 13 to
18 from the 48 contiguous states. Scientists sought to answer two
questions: whether pot use had increased from the time states
passed medical marijuana laws up to 2014, and whether the risk of
teens commencing marijuana use in the first place changed after
passage of the laws.
“Marijuana use by teenagers does not increase after a state
legalizes medical marijuana,” said Dr. Deborah Hasin,
professor of epidemiology at Columbia University Medical Center,
and the study’s author, according to the Guardian. “Rather,
up to now, in the states that passed medical marijuana laws,
adolescent marijuana use was already higher than in other
states.”
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The
study, published in the Lancet Psychiatry, also found that among
the youngest students surveyed, eighth graders, marijuana use had
dropped. Hasin suggested that older students might still view the
drug as taboo and recreational, while younger teens are more
adjusted to the idea of marijuana as a medical drug.
Controversy still swirls around the use of medical and
recreational marijuana, however. Concern has been raised over
reports of adverse effects from pot use later in life, as well as
dependence and reliance on public health programs for assistance
in combating addiction.
“Because early adolescent use of marijuana can lead to many
long-term harmful outcomes, identifying the factors that actually
play a role in adolescent use should be a high research
priority,” said Dr. Hasin.
READ MORE: Rae of small children exposed to
marijuana up 147.5% – study
Since 1996, 23 US states and Washington, DC have approved the use
of medical marijuana, with Colorado, Washington, Alaska, Oregon
and DC also approving its recreational use. These laws have
helped convey the idea that marijuana is now acceptable, but the
federal government still classifies marijuana as a Schedule I
drug, in the same category as heroin and LSD. This means federal
authorities consider it to have a high potential for abuse and no
currently accepted medical use.
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