USA college students are now more likely to smoke marijuana on a daily basis than cigarettes, as marijuana smoking rates continue to climb, according to the results of a new survey from the University of Michigan.
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Only five percent of college students reported using tobacco daily.
This question has remained unanswered as yet that why the use of marijuana is increasing day by day among teenagers, high school students or college students.
For the first time ever, more college age students report using marijuana more often than smoking cigarettes. You can read the entire study here.
About half of all college students reported they had not used any illicit drug in the previous year and three-quarters reported they hadn’t used drugs in the previous month.
Researchers collected knowledge as a part of the nationwide of youngsters and school college students for the 35th yr, which incorporates following up with earlier individuals within the research courting to its begin.
In an address made by study author Lloyd Johnston, who is a researcher at University of Michigan, he mentioned that, since the past seven or eight years, there has been a rise in the use of marijuana among the countries’ college student population. He says, “Among young people smoking among young people isn’t almost as socially acceptable as marijuana use is becoming”.
There was a marked decrease in the number of high school graduates who viewed pot as risky over the past eight years – from a majority of all students (55 per cent) in 2006, to just over a third in 2014. Ecstasy use has leveled off, with slightly below 6 % reporting use within the final 12 months, however that comes after a spike between 2007 and 2012.
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“If the debate over medical marijuana use (and decriminalization and legalization) is reducing the perceived risk of that drug, the effect could well be occurring across various age groups, thus creating a secular trend”. Even so, about 5 out of every 10 college students reported not having used an illicit drug in the previous year. According to the news release, the increase is attributable “mostly to students’ increased use of amphetamines (without doctor’s orders) and use of ecstasy”. “Maybe crucial is that 5 out of each 10 school college students haven’t used any illicit drug prior to now yr, and greater than three quarters haven’t used any within the prior month”.
