Legal Weed Doesn’t Lead to Increases in Teen Drug Treatment Admissions, Study Says

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Between 2008 and 2017, the rate of teens being admitted to drug treatment programs for cannabis decreased by nearly 50 percent, even though more and more states are legalizing weed.

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A new study recently published in the Drug and Alcohol Dependence journal is adding to the growing body of research showing that adult-use cannabis legalization does not make adolescents more likely to use or abuse marijuana.

Two researchers from Temple University in Pennsylvania set out to investigate the widespread concern that “recreational marijuana legalization (RML) may lead to increased cannabis use disorder (CUD) among youth due to increased marijuana use.” To test this, researchers...

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