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Study: Younger Generation More Permissive Toward Marijuana


A University of California, San Francisco, study finds medical marijuana laws in a state don’t directly affect how young people view the drug, Forbes reported Friday. In general the study published in the American Journal of Public Health found younger folks have a permissive view of pot.

The researchers wrote, via Forbes:

    “This raises the possibility that the progressive liberalization of marijuana control policies at the state level has culminated in a national debate that is influencing all young Americans regardless of the states they dwell in. ... Our analysis also suggests that more permissive attitudes may be drivers in the liberalization of state marijuana control policies.”

The researchers looked at national drug surveys from 2004 to 2013 and analyzed responses — studying attitudes on marijuana riskiness, accessibility and social acceptability — from hundreds of thousands of people between the ages of 12 and 25.

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