{"id":3008,"date":"2021-09-21T15:26:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T05:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/usa-marijuana-use-soars-alcohol-use-drops-among-college-students\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:02:06","slug":"usa-marijuana-use-soars-alcohol-use-drops-among-college-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/usa-marijuana-use-soars-alcohol-use-drops-among-college-students\/","title":{"rendered":"USA: Marijuana Use Soars, Alcohol Use Drops Among College Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a strong, sustained and successful anti-cannabis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hudson.org\/research\/12306-nancy-reagan-s-just-say-no-campaign-helped-halve-number-of-teens-on-drugs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">demand reduction campaign in the late 80\u2019s<\/a> and early 90\u2019s, cannabis use was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.childtrends.org\/indicators\/marijuana-use\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declining from a then historic high<\/a>, but the <strong>N.O.R.M.L<\/strong>\u2019s push to use \u2018medicinal marijuana\u2019 in the mid 1990\u2019 as a trojan horse to get declining youth use back up, has seen that strategy work, as the following tragically reveals<strong>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/NORMLPrediction.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button\">View video here<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Key MTF findings on college students\u2019 marijuana use in 2020 and recent trends are:<\/li>\n<li>In 2020, annual prevalence of marijuana use reached a historic high since the early 1980s, at 44%.<\/li>\n<li>The five year trend from 2015 to 2020 showed a significant 6% jump in the annual prevalence of marijuana use.<\/li>\n<li>Daily marijuana use increased to 7.9% a new all-time high over the past four decades.<\/li>\n<li>Over one-in-twelve college students use marijuana on a daily or near daily basis.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>30 day marijuana vaping doubled between 2017 to 2019 from 5.2% to 14%. It slightly declined in 2020 to 12%.<\/li>\n<li>44% <strong>Annual prevalence of marijuana use among U.S. college students<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The U.S. Monitoring the Future (MTF) report for 2020 found, among college students annual prevalence of marijuana use reached a historic high since the early 1980s, at 44%.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/movendi.ngo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mtf-vol2_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monitoring the Future, 2020<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/movendi.ngo\/news\/2021\/09\/13\/usa-marijuana-use-soars-alcohol-use-drops-among-college-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"button\">For complete article&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a strong, sustained and successful anti-cannabis demand reduction campaign in the late 80\u2019s and early 90\u2019s, cannabis use was declining from a then historic high, but the N.O.R.M.L\u2019s push to use \u2018medicinal marijuana\u2019 in the mid 1990\u2019 as a trojan horse to get declining youth use back up, has seen that strategy work, as 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