{"id":54520,"date":"2021-12-17T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T00:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/us-teens-are-smoking-less-weed-than-ever-before-federally-funded-survey-says\/"},"modified":"2021-12-17T00:00:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T00:00:53","slug":"us-teens-are-smoking-less-weed-than-ever-before-federally-funded-survey-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/us-teens-are-smoking-less-weed-than-ever-before-federally-funded-survey-says\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Teens Are Smoking Less Weed Than Ever Before, Federally Funded Survey Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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American teens smoked way less weed in 2021<\/u><\/a> than they did in previous years, according to the Monitoring the Future (MTF) study, a federally-funded survey that has been tracking adolescent drug use every year since 1975.<\/p>\n

The MTF survey, conducted by the University of Michigan, asked a random sample of American 8th, 10th, and 12th graders to anonymously self-report their recent use of alcohol, tobacco, weed, and other drugs. This year, researchers collected 32,260 surveys from students in 319 public and private schools across the country between February and June.<\/p>\n

The 2021 edition of the study<\/u><\/a> reports that the number of students who admitted to using cannabis in any form, including vaping and smoking, decreased significantly this year. Specifically, the survey reports a 38 percent year-over-year reduction in teen cannabis use among 8th and 10th graders and a 13 percent decrease among 12th graders. Researchers also saw significant reductions in the rates of daily, past-month, and lifetime pot use in all grades.<\/p>\n