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Non-Medical Marijuana III: Rite of Passage or Russian Roulette?

Organization: 
The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University
Publisher: 
The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University
Date Published: 
June, 2008

This report about non-medical marijuana was written to alert parents, teachers, doctors, clergy and all those who care about our nation’s children, to critical and alarming findings about teen marijuana use. It reports on several trends including an increase in the potency of marijuana, an increase in the proportion of teen treatment admissions for marijuana abuse and dependence, and increase in the percentage of teen emergency department findings linked to marijuana use.

Download a copy of Non-Medical Marijuana III: Rite of Passage or Russian Roulette? (PDF, 783 KB) from the The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University Website.