Pubdate: Thu, 26 Dec 2013
Source: Chico News & Review, The (CA)
Copyright: 2013 Chico Community Publishing, Inc.
Contact:  http://www.newsreview.com/chico/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/559

TEENS FAVOR REAL POT

High-School Seniors Using Less Synthetic Marijuana, More Real Weed

While teens' use of synthetic marijuana is on the decline, their
attitudes toward real pot are trending in the opposite direction.

Synthetic marijuana-known by such names as K2 and spice-is made of
dried plant material sprayed with various chemicals and packaged to
look like weed, according to SFGate.com. After being introduced in the
U.S. in 2009, an alarming number of emergency-room visits and deaths
were tied to use of the drugs. But a report recently released by the
National Institutes of Health found that the number of high-school
seniors who have tried synthetic marijuana has dropped-from 11 percent
of seniors in 2012 to 8 percent in 2013.

Meanwhile, a separate report from the National Institute on Drug Abuse
found that a clear majority of high-school seniors-60 percent-do not
see regular marijuana use as harmful to health, according to CNN.com.
Additionally, more than a third of students surveyed reported smoking
pot in the past year.  
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