Marijuana Use Among College Students Reaches 35 Year High
“highest levels seen in the annual survey since 1983”
This should not surprise anyone. Marijuana is now legal in many places and readily available.
ABC News reports:
Marijuana use by US college students up, highest in 35 years
U.S. college students are using marijuana at the highest rates in 35 years, according to a report released Thursday.
About 43% of full-time college students said they used some form of pot at least once in the past year, up from 38%, a University of Michigan survey found. About 25% said they did so in the previous month, up from 21%.
The latest figures are the highest levels seen in the annual survey since 1983.
About 6% of college students said they used marijuana 20 or more times in the past month. For adults the same age who weren’t enrolled in college, the figure was 11%.
“It’s the frequent use we’re most worried about” because it’s linked to poor academic performance and can be detrimental to mental health, said John Schulenberg, one of the Michigan researchers.
College-age adults are the biggest users of marijuana than any other age group. Use among high school students has been flat for a few years.
The 2018 findings are based on responses from about 1,400 adults age 19 to 22, including 900 who were full-time college students and about 500 who were not.
The survey only has comparable data on college kids going back to 1980. So it doesn’t say how common marijuana use was in the 1960’s and 1970’s — a time when marijuana use on college campuses was considered widespread.
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No real surprise here. “Medical” use of marijuana indicates,to some, that pot use can be good for you.
I don’t think it’s a good idea to have numbers of stoners out there unfettered among us.
Too bad, the genie will never go back into the bottle.
most of these college “students” could not make entry in a third rate 4 year college 45 years ago unless such had the name “State” or “Community” in its title. And as for “State”, fully 50% of the programs would be beyond the ability of these cretins. Remember when you applied to a even a “State” college and said you wanted to be an engineer and had to have grades, SAT and ACT scores to meet the minimum entrance quals? And those scores were hard to get!
What percentage were too stoned to provide a coherent answer?