by Christine Tatum | Jun 4, 2018 | Marijuana, Research
Marijuana use is up in the last year among American middle-school and high-school students, and legalizing the drug likely would mean many more underage marijuana users, according to Monitoring the Future, one of the United States’ largest studies of...
by Christine Tatum | Dec 16, 2015 | Marijuana, Research
The national landscape of drug use among the nation’s middle-school and high-school students is showing both signs of promise and trouble ahead, according to The University of Michigan’s annual Monitoring the Future study, released today. A quick...
by Christine Tatum | Dec 15, 2014 | Marijuana, Research, Uncategorized
National and local reports about adolescent marijuana use are not trending in a good direction — and both suggest youth living in states where marijuana is legalized face higher risks associated with the drug’s use. First, the local report: Arrests related...
by Christine Tatum | Sep 17, 2014 | Marijuana, Media, Research, Uncategorized
To understand marijuana and the impact of its legalization, focus like a laser on the data on which everyone bases their interpretations and explanations. News reports often don’t square with the data. Case in point: this article appearing in The Washington Post...
by Chris Thurstone | Dec 18, 2013 | Marijuana, Research
Monitoring the Future, the only nationally representative survey of American students that examines their drug-use patterns and attitudes, is reporting today: Marijuana is the most popular illicit drug, with one-third of high school seniors reporting they smoked it in...