Fourteen percent of 12th graders said they vaped marijuana in the previous month, nearly double the rate from 2018, the National Institutes of Health says.
Fourteen percent of 12th graders said they vaped marijuana in the previous month, according to the NIH's Monitoring the Future survey.Vaping is becoming a popular way to consume both nicotine and THC.
Fourteen percent of high school seniors said they vaped marijuana in the previous month, according to the National Institutes of Health's annual Monitoring the Future survey. That's nearly double the rate from 2018, the second-largest annual increase recorded in the survey's 45-year history. It's also up dramatically from 4.9% in 2017.
"It appears that kids are switching how they are using marijuana, not how much they are using marijuana," said Ken Warner, an emeritus professor of health policy at the University of Michigan, who was not affiliated with the study. The survey of more than 42,000 students in grades 8, 10 and 12 was conducted by Richard Miech and colleagues at the University of Michigan.
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