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Marijuana Use Among Canadian Teens Reaches Record High
November 12, 2003

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A Health Canada survey finds that more 12- to 19-year-old Canadians smoke marijuana regularly than use tobacco, putting use of the drug at the highest level in 25 years, the Ottawa Citizen reported Oct. 29.

"Research we have conducted on 12- to 19-year-olds shows us that marijuana has gone mainstream and is well integrated into teen lifestyle," said Linda Dabros, a special adviser to Health Canada's director general of drug strategy.

According to the survey of 1,250 teens, 34 percent of 12- to 19-year-olds said they had smoked marijuana more than once, while 22 percent of teens said they smoke cigarettes regularly.

"Youth rates are going up and are at levels that we haven't seen since the late '70s, when rates reached their peak," said Richard Garlick, a spokesman for the Canadian Centre for Substance Abuse.

Canada is currently considering a measure that would decriminalize marijuana.

COMMENTS ON THIS ARTICLE:

Posted by Codie Pitt on 10 Apr 08 04:22 PM EDT
Good information but, next time, you may want to be a little less ambiguous with the statistics. If you mean MARIJUANA cigarrets then, please, tell us that. Don't leave it so that people don't understand if you're still meaning how many teens smoke marijuana regularly and not if it's tobacco you're talking about with the '22% of teens said they smoke cigarettes regularaly' comment. Thanks and I don't mean to sound rude. It's just that some people that look on here may be students doing a project on the regularity teens smoke marijuana and they may get confused. Even the teacher may get confused, trust me on that one, because I am a student doing said project and my teacher was confused. So, once again, thank you and have a nice day. ^_^

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