thedailyfeed: Legalizing medical marijuana has no effect on how often kids get high, a new study suggests.  If legalizing marijuana did in fact compel more kids to get high, one would expect to see Rhode Island teens lighting up at a higher rate after the drug’s legalization in 2006, relative to kids in Massachusetts, where the drug remains illegal. The study found no such correlation. In both states, teen consumption stayed at around 30%, every year, between 1997 and 2009. One possible reason for this, Choo speculated, is that those who use medical marijuana aren’t exactly the kind of people teens seek to emulate.

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Legalizing medical marijuana has no effect on how often kids get high, a new study suggests. 

If legalizing marijuana did in fact compel more kids to get high, one would expect to see Rhode Island teens lighting up at a higher rate after the drug’s legalization in 2006, relative to kids in Massachusetts, where the drug remains illegal.

The study found no such correlation. In both states, teen consumption stayed at around 30%, every year, between 1997 and 2009.

One possible reason for this, Choo speculated, is that those who use medical marijuana aren’t exactly the kind of people teens seek to emulate.

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    Don’t be like that, teens. In spite of I’m not feeling well in every single day. Still, in God I trust, not in those...
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    ok but let’s talk about California… not that I’m anti-med-marij, just saying that it might be a special case.
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    not these guys, anyway.
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