Here\u2019s a true clich\u00e9: Though everybody in America is using more cannabis today than they did a generation ago, nobody in America smokes more weed than college students. And college students in Colorado, where recreational cannabis has been sold legally and openly in stores since January 2014, use more cannabis than anyone else.<\/p>\n
National surveys and use studies (which typically rely on self-reported data from surveys) have found that about 20 percent of Americans aged 18 to 25 have used marijuana at least once in the last month. This is far, far less than the\u00a060 percent of college students<\/a>\u00a0who drank alcoholic drinks at least once in the past month\u2026 but we digress.<\/p>\n In Colorado, a whopping 24 percent of college students are monthly marijuana users, according to a recent report\u00a0published<\/a>\u00a0in the February 2018 edition of the research journal\u00a0Addictive Behaviors<\/em>. And 10 percent of Colorado college kids have daily or \u201cnear-daily\u201d weed habits, the same report found.<\/p>\n But according to a new survey underway, conducted by the Coalition of Colorado Alcohol and Drug Educators, it\u2019s worse than that.\u00a0According to CADE<\/a>, a good 13.9 percent of Colorado college students say they use cannabis either daily or every other day.\u00a0And in this cohort is another subgroup \u2014 an unspecified but apparently increasing number of students also cop to using cannabis between two to five time daily, according to an item on the survey recently broadcast by\u00a0The Denver Channel.<\/a><\/p>\n What does this mean? If you are an avowed\u00a0prohibitionist\u00a0who is convinced marijuana legalization is the great unraveling of our society, it\u2019s time to go online and lament.<\/p>\n We\u2019re going to lose a generation to marijuana in Colorado.<\/p>\n Arnold said they are also seeing more students reporting using pot two to five times per day.<\/p>\n Thompson said she has seen students\u2019 educational goals derailed by frequent cannabis use.https:\/\/t.co\/ldaWjjnkCw<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 jeffhunt (@jeffhunt) December 6, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n Most of us might not reach such a conclusion, because 14 percent of college kids does not quite constitute an entire \u201cgeneration,\u201d and because marijuana is not\u00a0heroin<\/a>, which is in fact thinning the ranks of an entire generation.\u00a0So if you can bear giving this news the slightest scrutiny before posting, consider the fact that this survey actually says very little other than what we\u00a0knew before<\/a>: College kids smoke weed! Sometimes too much weed for their own good! In other words, the world exists much as it did.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s present a hypothetical situation. Here we have two roommates, Roommate A and Roommate B. Roommate A is a real wook and dabs daily. (He\u2019s also a theoretical physicist.) Roommate B uses CBD balm to relieve muscle pain. (She\u2019s a poet, because why not?) This pair probably doesn\u2019t have much in common. They certainly won\u2019t bond over their weed habit, even though the survey would consider them identical.<\/p>\n This hypothetical presents the fundamental problem with marijuana-use data. It\u2019s not that the data tends to be self-reported, though that can be an issue. It\u2019s that, particularly with cannabis, very different substance-use habits are considered identical for purposes of the survey.\u00a0The result is a not-so-keen understanding of what college kids are doing with cannabis and for what reasons, aside from \u201cthey are using weed!\u201d Which, again, is not something that we didn\u2019t already know.<\/p>\n Thus the purpose of data like this, as a tool to whip up hysteria in order to return to prohibition days, is obvious when you see it in action. But its function stops there.<\/p>\n What might be better is to remember that about 1 in 10 marijuana users develop a\u00a0problem<\/a>\u00a0with cannabis use. This would mean 10 percent of the 24 percent who say they use once a month, or 2.4 percent of college students, may use too much or have trouble quitting.<\/p>\n That does not make their struggles any less real or meaningful, but lamenting about 2.4 percent of college kids smoking too much weed doesn\u2019t make for good histrionic tweets or baseless moralizing. That\u2019s why we see the numbers cooked and presented for maximum effect in the way above, all while other far more pressing threats, like alcohol, opiates and the slowly dawning reality that climate change, rising real-estate prices, and vanishing career-level job are all conspiring to make college a meaningless exercise, take the real toll.<\/p>\n TELL US<\/b>, when was the last time you saw marijuana-related \u201cdata\u201d that didn\u2019t seem to add up?<\/p>\n The post The Problem With Marijuana-Use Surveys (& How They\u2019re Misused)<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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