Obama's America: Marijuana Is Harder Than Ever for Younger Teens to Find

[benjipwns]

http://www.usnews.com/news/data-mine/articles/2016-12-13/marijuana-is-harder-than-ever-for-younger-teens-to-find

younger teens are reporting the scarcest availability in at least 24 years.

In 2016, 8th-grade and 10th-grade respondents to the large Monitoring the Future survey gave the lowest-ever indication that marijuana was easy to get if they wanted it, a question posed to the groups every year since 1992.

Only 34.6 percent of 8th-grade students said it would be easy to get marijuana, down 2.4 percentage points. Of 10th graders, 64 percent said it would be easy to get, also the lowest rate ever, though not a statistically significant annual drop.

Actual use of the drug dropped among 8th grade students and stagnated among 12th graders. Reported annual use continued a five-year slide among 10th grade students, though the year-to-year change was not statistically significant.

“I don’t have an explanation. This is somewhat surprising,” says Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which commissions the annual survey.

[Brehvolution]

I'd like to cross reference the data with the same age groups that were too lazy to look in their parents night stand.

If you found a black light or a candle in there, the weed was probably there too. You were just too young to know what weed looked like.

[Himu]

maybe it's because they're LEGAL in some states?! Wow! Making things legal with an age cap for access makes things harder to get?!

[Joe Molotov]

lol, benji falling for fake news again. Next he'll be telling us non abstience-only sex-ed results in fewer pregnancies or some obvious bullshit like that.

[ToxicAdam]

Don't you have to leave the house to find it?

[chronovore]

maybe it's because they're LEGAL in some states?! Wow! Making things legal with an age cap for access makes things harder to get?!

Now that a bunch of 30- and 40-year-olds are doing it legally, it's not cool.