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on my way to work - in tha-freexing cold...
I was reading the metro!
look at the front cover story!! makes sence to this THREAD!~
***ENJOY****** smoek resposibly!
| quote: | Published January 20, 2005
Student pot use on the rise
Marijuana use is reaching historic highs among Toronto students and adults, a study on illegal drug use has found.
The Toronto Research Group on Drug Use a coalition of 20 agencies, including the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and Toronto Public Health released a report yesterday, which culled information from a variety of research studies and surveys.
About 23 per cent of intermediate and high school students surveyed in 2003 said they had smoked pot in the past year, while the figure was only 15 per cent for adults. Those numbers are among the highest to be reported since monitoring began about 30 years ago.
"Theres no evidence at the moment that this increase is continuing, that its going higher. Cannabis use among adolescents in Toronto and the province has been fairly stable between 1999 ... and 2003," said Ed Adlaf, a senior scientist with the addiction centre, though he noted the rate among students hit a low of 8 per cent in 1993.
Joyce Bernstein, a public health epidemiologist, said drug use rates among street youth and the homeless at large are much higher.
"Street life for these kids is not a party," Bernstein said, noting thousands of teens "self-medicate with illicit drugs."
Bernstein said the lack of residential drug treatment for at-risk youth makes the problem even more acute.
Adlaf noted that students in Toronto actually report lower levels of drug use among 20 different types surveyed than their counterparts in the rest of the province. He attributes that to the citys large immigrant population.
"It does surprise many people that ... drug use would be lower in a large urban centre. (But) theres actually a lot of literature showing that immigrants including adolescents and adults are less likely to use illegal drugs," Adlaf said.
Sometimes known as the "healthy immigrant effect," Adlaf added that it also shows up in comparisons of mental health between immigrants and homegrown Canadians.
Torstar News Service
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now what has to be said about that -
also looking at how many have posted in this THREAD that means there is 424 at least, joints, bongs or pipes smoked!!!!!!!!
all hail the PIPE
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