As more states adopt laws allowing medical marijuana, fewer teens see occasional marijuana use as harmful, the largest national survey of youth drug use has found. Nearly 80% of high school seniors don't consider occasional marijuana use harmful -- the highest rate since 1983-- and record numbers smoke it regularly, according to the annual survey of eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders made public Wednesday. More than one in five high school seniors said they smoked marijuana in the month before the survey, and more than a third smoked marijuana during the previous year, according to Monitoring the Future's survey of 45,449 students from 395 public and private schools. The survey has measured drug, alcohol and cigarette use since 1975.
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