Teens Increasingly Choose Pot Over Alcohol, Cigarettes
Tuesday, December 4, 2018 - 09:30
in Psychology & Sociology
The “gateway pattern” of adolescent substance use is changing, and marijuana is increasingly the first substance in the sequence of adolescent drug use, according researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Traditionally, students experiment with cigarettes and alcohol before cannabis, but since 2006, less than 50 percent of adolescents try cigarettes and alcohol […]