Not exact matches
The three states have lists
of pesticides that are OK to
use on
marijuana, but so far none is conducting
regular tests for banned pesticides, which has raised public health worries even though there's little or no indication
of people becoming ill because
of pesticides in legal
marijuana products.
(But the government's own statistics indicate that for every 104 people who have
used marijuana, only one becomes a
regular user
of cocaine, and less than one becomes a heroin addict.)
Nearly one - third said they had
used illicit substances within the previous 90 days; 38 percent
of those
used synthetic
marijuana, twice as many as had
used regular marijuana.
The survey indicates that significantly fewer teens now disapprove
of regular marijuana use, with 64.7 percent
of 12th graders voicing disapproval, compared to 68.5 percent last year.
«Hashish and other
marijuana use tended to share many
of the same correlates; however, our results found that risk factors for
regular marijuana use were often much stronger risk factors for hashish, a much more potent form
of the drug.»
«Other illicit drug
use,
regular cigarette smoking, and frequent alcohol
use each increased the risk for hashish
use; however, a main finding was that as frequency
of other
marijuana use increased, so too did risk for recent hashish
use.»
In particular, Guttmannová said, future studies should address specific dimensions
of marijuana policies, timing
of policy change and implementation, and different aspects
of marijuana and alcohol
use, such as age
of users and whether they are episodic or
regular consumers.