More than 60 percent of American high school seniors do not think regular marijuana use is harmful, a new survey conducted by the National Institutes of Health's Monitoring the Future project finds.
That figure is up from 55 percent in 2012 and considerably higher than rates from the past two decades.
The survey also found 6.5 percent of 12th-graders smoke marijuana daily, up from 6 percent in 2003 and 2.4 percent in 1993.
It also showed that marijuana use increases with age.
Nearly a quarter (23 percent) of the seniors say they smoked marijuana in the month before the survey, and just over 36 percent say they smoked it during the past year.
Among 10th-graders, 4 percent say they use marijuana daily, 18 percent within the past month and 30 percent in the past year.
More than 12 percent of eighth-graders say they used marijuana in the past year, the survey found.
By contrast, use of alcohol and cigarettes among teens continues to steadily decline.
- These new findings do not surprise me at all. I believe that many students are involved in some type of drug or in alcohol. Maybe the seniors do not believe that daily use of Marijuana is bad because they are satisfied with the effects it has on them. According to social sites or television programs,weed is considered to only give you good effects and that it is pretty harmless. Many young Americans even believe that Marijuana is better and safer than alcohol. Day by day, there is a high school student smoking Marijuana just to feel the effects or to simply look "cool" for their friends. Young people do not think about any consequences Marijuana can hold.
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