WASHINGTON POST: …In 2001, just 4.1 percent of adults said they used marijuana. That increased to 9.5 percent by 2013. The findings were published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry.
Researchers also found that marijuana abuse or ependence increased during that 12-year time frame, likely because the overall number of adults using increased so much.
[Why college students are now smoking more pot than cigarettes]
Increased marijuana use came during roughly the same timeframe that Americans’ attitudes about legalizing the drug shifted; less than one-third of Americans were in favor of legalizing marijuana in 2002, while a majority favored legalization in 2013, according to the Pew Research Center… (more)
EDITOR: To the extent marijuana use replaces binge drinking on campus, it is a very good thing.
