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Article: SUMMER POT USE BY TEENS TARGETED.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- June 5, 2004
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Byline: Alexander R. LeMaine Scripps Howard News Service
The summer months have arrived, traditionally the time when teen-agers take their first puffs of marijuana.
The National Survey on Drug Use and Health, released Friday, estimates 6,300 youths will try marijuana each day during June and July, a 40 percent increase from the rest of the year. More than one in five of all teens who first experiment with marijuana do so in the first two months of summer.
Daniel Angres, medical director of the Rush Behavioral Health Center in Chicago, said the lack of structured environment that school provides could lead to youths taking part in such risky ...