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Phoenix666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

Marijuana use is on the rise [futurity.org], with an estimated 12.5 percent of adults living in the United States reportedly using the drug at least once in 2013, according to a new study that looked at drug usage over the span of a decade.

But those findings also show that, contrary to previous reports, the rate of pot use did not double from 2002 to 2013—and that the rate of problems related to the drug remained steady.

Published in JAMA Psychiatry, the study shows that rather than doubling, the increase in marijuana use among adults was closer to 20 percent over the same time period and that problems related to using pot, such as addiction, remained steady or even declined.

The new findings are in stark contrast to data published in 2015 by another team of researchers that suggested the percentage of US adults using marijuana had more than doubled from 2002 to 2013, with a similar increase in the rate of marijuana-use disorders.

Original study [jamanetwork.com].

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