Is this becoming an aging hippy thing?
Not where I am; multigenerational. But here is something non anecdotal. Eyeballing da Goog, looks like it waxes and wanes.
In 2000, approximately 2.1 million youth under age 18 used marijuana for the first time, and 2.2 million tried cigarettes for the first time.6 The number of youth who first try a cigarette or marijuana in the U.S. each year is greater than the combined population of Delaware, Rhode Island, Montana and the Dakotas.7
Among tenth graders, the rate of current marijuana use is nearly the same as cigarettes. In 2002, 17.8 percent of 10th graders reported using marijuana and 17.7 percent reported using cigarettes in the past 30 days.8
Marijuana use exceeds cigarette use among high school students in 13 of the 14 cities surveyed in the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance survey, including: Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Ft. Lauderdale, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Orlando, Palm Beach, Philadelphia, San Bernardino, San Diego, and San Francisco.9
Marijuana use also exceeds cigarette use among high school students in eight of the 22 states surveyed, including: Delaware, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Rhode Island, Utah, and Vermont.10
Delaware, Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, and Vermont are also five of the country’s top ten states with the highest percentage of marijuana users among youth ages 12 to 17.11
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