Study Shows Marijuana As Drug For Life’s Future Losers – Anti-Marijuana Video

Study Shows Cannabis As Drug For Life’s Future Losers Video. Study Says Youth Marijuana Users Face More Problems than Drinkers. A 10-year study finds that youths who were heavy marijuana users in their teens were more likely than drinkers to have a host of problems later in life, including mental illness, relationship problems, and trouble getting a job. The Independent reported April 22 that researchers followed 1900 youths from age 15 to 25 and found that heavy marijuana users were three to six times more likely to use other drugs than those who drank alcohol, and three times more likely to be unemployed or drop out of school. “Cannabis really does look like the drug of choice for life’s future losers,” said lead researcher George Patton of the Melbourne University Center for Adolescent Health. The study was published in the April 2007 issue of the journal Addiction. Reference: Patton, GC, et al. (2007) Trajectories of adolescent alcohol and cannabis use into young adulthood. Addiction, 102(4): 607-615; doi: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01728.x Trajectories of adolescent alcohol and cannabis use into young adulthood.Patton GC, Coffey C, Lynskey MT, Reid S, Hemphill S, Carlin JB, Hall W. Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, University of Melbourne. Victoria, Australia. BACKGROUND: Both alcohol and cannabis use carry health risks. Both are commonly initiated in adolescence. To date little research has described …