{"id":54070,"date":"2021-09-15T17:15:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T17:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/college-students-are-drinking-less-booze-and-smoking-a-lot-more-weed-federal-survey-says\/"},"modified":"2021-09-15T17:15:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T17:15:03","slug":"college-students-are-drinking-less-booze-and-smoking-a-lot-more-weed-federal-survey-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/college-students-are-drinking-less-booze-and-smoking-a-lot-more-weed-federal-survey-says\/","title":{"rendered":"College Students Are Drinking Less Booze and Smoking A Lot More Weed, Federal Survey Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Young adults between the ages of 19 and 22 are drinking less alcohol, smoking more weed, and doing more psychedelics, a new federally-funded survey reports<\/u><\/a>. <\/p>\n

According to the latest installment of the annual Monitoring the Future (MTF) study, nearly half of college students said that they used cannabis at least once in 2020. Pot use among college students has been increasing steadily over the past five years, from 38 percent in 2015 to 44 percent in 2020. Last year’s record also happens to be the highest level of college pot use recorded since the 1980s. <\/p>\n

By contrast, pot use among 19- to 21-year-olds who are not enrolled in college has held steady at 43 percent for the past three years. Daily cannabis use, while far less common than occasional use, has also risen significantly from 5 percent in 2015 to 8 percent last year. Most importantly, cannabis use among teens and children has not increased<\/u><\/a>, even though more and more states are legalizing adult-use cannabis.<\/p>\n