Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Marijuana use among students to be said higher than average

Tehachapi News
Tehachapi Unified School District's Chief Administrator of Instructional Service and Technology is concerned about a possible increase in use of marijuana by students, particularly following the passage of California's medicinal marijuana initiative, which legalizes possession of the drug for adults with prescriptions. Six weeks after the California Healthy Kids Survey reported higher than state average drug use rates among Tehachapi high school and middle school students, the numbers of fifth grade school children that have used marijuana were equally as shocking, as this year's results reported a one-percent higher marijuana use rate than the Kern County average of two percent.

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