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Medical Use of Marijuana Doesn’t Increase Youths’ Use, Study Finds

Medical Use of Marijuana Doesn’t Increase Youths’ Use, Study Finds

by Benedict Carey, The New York Times, June 15, 2015

Marijuana use did not increase among teenagers in the states in which medical marijuana has become legal, researchers reported Monday.

The new analysis is the most comprehensive effort to date to answer a much-debated question: Does decriminalization of marijuana lead more adolescents to begin using it?

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