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Marijuana Use Among Teens at Highest Level in 30 Years


LA Weekly by Dennis Romero
Legalizing medical marijuana might be good for grannies with glaucoma, but there's been, at the least, a correlation between the rise of legit weed and teen toking. The latest Monitoring the Future survey of teen drug use in America finds that "daily marijuana use is now at a 30-year peak level among high school seniors." Whew. That's Fast Times at Ridgemont High levels, given that the all-time peak of pot use was said to be in 1979, around the time Cameron Crowe was hanging out at a San Diego high school to research the basis of the film.

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