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Kids and pot - US teenagers think smoking marijuana is no big deal

The National Institutes of Health released its annual survey last week which shows that American teenagers’ perception of the dangers of marijuana has fallen to the lowest level in more than 20 years, noting that only 41.7 % of eight graders view the drug as harmful.

Only about 20% of high school seniors considered pot smoking as unsafe.

The report also warns that marijuana use among school aged children is on the rise.

So is it becoming OK for kids to smoke pot?

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Source: Irish Central, 26/12/2012

Posted by Andy on 12/27 at 11:08 AM in
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