The common misconception of marijuana has been disproved

As CNN reports, researchers from Montana State University in the USA have come to the conclusion that teenagers are less interested in using marijuana in the states where it is fully legalized.

Scientists have analyzed observations of high school students health from 1993 to 2017 – data on the habits of more than 1.4 million teenagers. The results of the study were published on the JAMA Network website.

They succeeded to trace the pattern: In states where cannabis was fully legalized, the number of schoolchildren reporting cannabis use had decreased by 8 per cent in the past 30 days, and the number of regular cannabis users had decreased by 9 per cent.

The authors believe that this may be due to an increase in the number of legal points of sale, where buyers are required to show documents.

However, the medical marijuana laws had no effect on the harmful habit: In states where the use of cannabis for recreational purposes is still illegal, there is no such trend. Scientists are not trying to argue that it is the new laws that have caused the decline in interest in matter among teenagers – they have only found an interconnection between these trends.