{"id":7295,"date":"2010-11-23T10:21:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T10:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=7295"},"modified":"2010-11-23T10:21:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T10:21:51","slug":"cesar-study-finds-9-warning-signs-of-early-marijuana-use-among-maryland%e2%80%99s-public-school-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2010\/11\/cesar-study-finds-9-warning-signs-of-early-marijuana-use-among-maryland%e2%80%99s-public-school-students\/","title":{"rendered":"CESAR Study Finds 9 Warning Signs of Early Marijuana Use Among Maryland\u2019s Public School Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><br \/>\nJune 28, 2004<br \/>\nVol. 13, Issue 26<\/p>\n<p>Nine behaviours and attitudes differentiate students who used marijuana before age 15 from those who had not, according to an analysis of data from the 2002 Maryland Adolescent Survey (MAS). Overall, one-fifth of Maryland 12th grade students reported using marijuana before age 15. A scale of 9 warning signs of early marijuana use among 12thgraders was developed from an analysis of the MAS data (see below). The scale also detected early use among 8th and 10th  graders. The more warning signs a student had, the more likely he or she was to have used marijuana early .  For example, approximately three-fourths of 12th graders with 6 or more warning signs were early marijuana users, compared to 3% of 12th graders with no warning signs. Students with more warning signs also reported using a greater number of other illegal drugs*and experiencing a greater number of serious problems **resulting from drug and alcohol use report, \u201cWarning Signs for Early Marijuana Users Among Maryland\u2019s Public School Students,\u201d discusses the implications of these findings for intervening with youth and implementing prevention programs. Complimentary copies of the report can be ordered by contacting CESAR at cesar@cesar.umd.eduor 301-405-9770.<\/p>\n<p>Behaviors\u2022<br \/>\nCigarette use before age 15<br \/>\n\u2022Alcohol use before age 15<br \/>\n\u202220 or more unexcused absences<br \/>\n\u2022Drug arrest<br \/>\n\u2022Alcohol arrest<br \/>\nAttitudes\/Opinions<br \/>\n\u2022Smoking marijuana is safe<br \/>\n\u2022Smoking cigarettes is safe<br \/>\n\u2022My parents think it\u2019s okay to smoke marijuana<br \/>\n\u2022My parents think it\u2019s okay to smoke <\/p>\n<p><em>SOURCE: Maryland Drug Early Warning System (DEWS), CESAR, \u201cWarning Signs for Early Marijuana Users Among Maryland\u2019s Public School Students,\u201d DEWS Investigates, June 2004. For more information, contact Dr. Eric Wish at ewish@cesar.umd.edu.<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 28, 2004 Vol. 13, Issue 26 Nine behaviours and attitudes differentiate students who used marijuana before age 15 from those who had not, according to an analysis of data from the 2002 Maryland Adolescent Survey (MAS). Overall, one-fifth of Maryland 12th grade students reported using marijuana before age 15. A scale of 9 warning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,41,64,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-marijuana","category-drug-use-effects-on-foetus","category-health","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7295","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=7295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}