{"id":3031,"date":"2009-07-24T14:27:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T13:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=3031"},"modified":"2009-07-24T14:27:18","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T13:27:18","slug":"marijuana-use-among-canadian-teens-reaches-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/07\/marijuana-use-among-canadian-teens-reaches-record-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana Use Among Canadian Teens Reaches Record High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Research we have conducted on 12- to 19-year-olds shows us that marijuana has gone mainstream and is well integrated into teen lifestyle,&#8221; said Linda Dabros, a special adviser to Health Canada&#8217;s director general of drug strategy.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Youth rates are going up and are at levels that we haven&#8217;t seen since the late &#8217;70s, when rates reached their peak,&#8221; said Richard Garlick, a spokesman for the Canadian Centre for Substance Abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Canada is currently considering a measure that would decriminalize marijuana.<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic; text-align: right;\">Source:<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">The Ottawa Citizen reported Oct. 29.2004.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &#8220;Research we have conducted on 12- to 19-year-olds shows us that marijuana has gone mainstream and is well integrated into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-marijuana","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}