{"id":48987,"date":"2014-12-16T15:27:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T15:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/16\/drug-use-is-down-for-teen-agers-despite-pot-legalization.html"},"modified":"2014-12-16T15:27:56","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T15:27:56","slug":"drug-use-is-down-for-teen-agers-despite-pot-legalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/16\/drug-use-is-down-for-teen-agers-despite-pot-legalization.html","title":{"rendered":"Drug use is down for teen-agers, despite pot legalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some encouraging survey results here, to the effect that not only is overall substance abuse by teens is down in 2014, but pot use is down despite medical marijuana and recreational marijuana laws being passed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2014\/12\/16\/teen-marijuana-use-falls-as-more-states-legalize'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/XMV7ZwxA-gSi9aCvVUQIBN5Od1DH_Qbbkk0d7w0RsWJm178-r1Ai_SwI_TwTnjUjqxtHIgMLU_9XRbCHY_Dx-8Q7mf2TjazveLMsibMqae3f7pevEUk7vqjQhnoVLAUWuM26NIQ_1CR3zwweVhZ49D-cFuV4J-aelGpUrj7rDo5WsK-ZVxRLGYI3tTbHlJOV9dGPo58F=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2014\/12\/16\/teen-marijuana-use-falls-as-more-states-legalize'>Teen marijuana use falls as more states legalize<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nDrug and alcohol use was down across the board in 2014.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/2TBZvKuGZ41'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some encouraging survey results here, to the effect that not only is overall substance abuse by teens is down in 2014, but pot use is down despite medical marijuana and recreational marijuana laws being passed. Teen marijuana use falls as more states legalize Drug and alcohol use was down across the board in 2014. View &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/16\/drug-use-is-down-for-teen-agers-despite-pot-legalization.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Drug use is down for teen-agers, despite pot legalization&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134614,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/08\/pot-use-among-teens-among-adults.html","url_meta":{"origin":48987,"position":0},"title":"Pot use is down among teens, up among adults","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 8-Sep-17 8:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the big bugbears from opponents of legalized medical and recreational marijuana was that teenagers would start smoking pot all the time. 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