A ten-year study of high school students found that teens who use marijuana on a regular basis are more likely to use drugs and to have psychosocial problems as young adults.

• Researchers in Victoria, Australia, followed 1,943 high school students from age 15 to 24 years old.
  
• The teens who used marijuana occasionally had higher risks for alcohol and tobacco dependence, as well for using illegal drugs as young adults.
  
• These teens were also less likely to go on to college.
  
• The ones who used marijuana at least once a week were at the highest risk for later drug use as young adults.
  
• The researchers concluded that marijuana use in adolescence is a predictor of later drug use and educational problems.

The study appeared in the Journal of Psychiatry.

Labels: teen_drug_use, marijuana, pot

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