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Re: Pot problems in Colorado schools increase with legalization Read more: Pot probl
According to the report the statistics on the increase of marijuana comes from Christine Harms, the director of the Colorado School Safety Resource Center. The yearly statistics they release don't break out by drug, but according to the director of the department that tracks the data they do actually keep those statistics.
Which of course makes perfect sense because when you craft drug awareness programs for public schools you should probably know which drugs are being abused.
Also worth pointing out to the "Legalization = Less abuse!" people on this forum is this page from the NIH regarding substance abuse:
The most abused drug is marijuana, and the other top abused drugs are all prescription medication. So the argument that a prescription system decreases access is absurd.
Also this inverse correlation between teen drug use and teen perception of the danger of the given drug:
And nationwide the pro-cannabis lobby had managed to increase the perception among teens that pot is harmless (previously cited).
That's odd because your first link said that CO doesn't break out the # of expulsions for possession of pot, so how can they know if the # increased?
According to the report the statistics on the increase of marijuana comes from Christine Harms, the director of the Colorado School Safety Resource Center. The yearly statistics they release don't break out by drug, but according to the director of the department that tracks the data they do actually keep those statistics.
Which of course makes perfect sense because when you craft drug awareness programs for public schools you should probably know which drugs are being abused.
Also worth pointing out to the "Legalization = Less abuse!" people on this forum is this page from the NIH regarding substance abuse:
The most abused drug is marijuana, and the other top abused drugs are all prescription medication. So the argument that a prescription system decreases access is absurd.
Also this inverse correlation between teen drug use and teen perception of the danger of the given drug:
And nationwide the pro-cannabis lobby had managed to increase the perception among teens that pot is harmless (previously cited).