{"id":3450,"date":"2023-01-11T13:21:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T02:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/smoke-and-minors-child-marijuana-use-has-soared-250-in-last-20-years-replacing-alcohol-as-the-drug-of-choice-for-under-18s-2\/"},"modified":"2023-01-11T13:21:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T02:21:12","slug":"smoke-and-minors-child-marijuana-use-has-soared-250-in-last-20-years-replacing-alcohol-as-the-drug-of-choice-for-under-18s-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/smoke-and-minors-child-marijuana-use-has-soared-250-in-last-20-years-replacing-alcohol-as-the-drug-of-choice-for-under-18s-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke and minors: Child marijuana use has soared 250% in last 20 years \u2014 replacing alcohol as the drug of choice for under-18s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The latest study involved nearly 340,000 reports to poison centers involving all drugs over 20 years. Researchers looked solely at those involving children aged six to 18.&nbsp;They&nbsp;found cases involving marijuana rose the quickest of any substance, replacing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/alcohol\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>alcohol<\/b><\/a>&nbsp;in 2014 and rising fastest between 2017 and 2020 \u2014 when weed began to be decriminalized at the federal level&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<i>The sharpest surge in marijuana use was between 2017 to 2020, rising by about 40 percent in three years.<\/i><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><b>Researchers in Oregon looked at 338,000 cases of intentional abuse or misuse<\/b><br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><b>Found marijuana has been leading cause of poisoning for children since 2018<\/b><br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><b>Researchers warned it was linked to legalization making drug more accessible<\/b><br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><b>Marijuana is considered particularly dangerous for young, developing brains and may<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-11138001\/Taking-cannabis-mid-20s-damages-cognitive-development-NIH-expert-warns.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">permanently change their structure<\/a>&nbsp;leading to a loss of IQ.<\/b><br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Dr Adrienne Hughes, an emergency medicine expert at Oregon Health and Science University who led the study, said: &#8216;These findings may reflect the impact of rapidly evolving cannabis legalization on this vulnerable population.<br \/>&#8216;Along with increasing cannabis legalization, we are also seeing the emergence of alternative modes of consumption, especially non-combustible products such as edibles and vaping devices. &#8216;These edible products and vaping products are often marketed in ways that are attractive to youth, can be used with more discretion, and are more convenient. &#8216;A focus group study with teenagers found that edibles were attractive to those concerned about smoking or the smell associated with smoking marijuana.&#8217;<br \/>(Source:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-11503539\/Child-marijuana-use-soared-250-20-years-replacing-alcohol.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Child marijuana use has soared 250% in last 20 years &#8211; replacing alcohol<\/a>&nbsp;)<\/p>\n<p>See Also,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-11478553\/Pregnant-women-legal-cannabis-states-four-TIMES-likely-use-raising-health-risks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Women in States that Legalize Cannabis are Five times More Likely to Use Cannabis While Pregnant<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest study involved nearly 340,000 reports to poison centers involving all drugs over 20 years. Researchers looked solely at those involving children aged six to 18.&nbsp;They&nbsp;found cases involving marijuana rose the quickest of any substance, replacing&nbsp;alcohol&nbsp;in 2014 and rising fastest between 2017 and 2020 \u2014 when weed began to be decriminalized at the federal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isabella-list-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}