Our marijuana laws need to change, and Biden is paving the way. Kudos to him; he's doing the right thing. Marijuana is displacing more dangerous habits; a net benefit to society.
Teen Marijuana Vaping Soars, Displacing Other Habits
NY Times Dec 2019
Drinking, cigarette smoking and the use of hard drugs all declined, according to a new federal survey of high school and middle school students.
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Though vaping of marijuana is on the rise, the overall rates of using the drug in all forms — smoking, vaping, edibles — were mixed. The rate of overall marijuana use held steady for high school students who reported using it once or more over the past year, but there was an uptick in daily use.
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Roughly 52 percent of high school seniors said they had used alcohol in the last year, along with 37.7 percent of 10th graders. Those figures have been dropping for years; in 2000, 73.2 percent of 12th graders said they had used alcohol in the last year as did 65.3 percent of 10th graders.
Cigarette use continued to drop, too. The portion of seniors who reported smoking in the last month fell to 5.7 percent, down from 13.6 percent five years ago.
