Younger pot smoking linked to higher rates of drug abuse later

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http://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article...you-start/

EXCERPT: What a difference a year or two can make: If you started smoking marijuana at the start of your teens, your risk of having a drug abuse problem by age 28 is 68 per cent, but if you started smoking between 15 and 17 your risk drops to 44 per cent, according to a new study by Université de Montréal researchers.

All the more reason, they say, to educate kids early, in primary school, about the risks of starting pot smoking, especially now that the potency is much greater than it was in decades past and that public acceptance is being spurred by legalization in jurisdictions such as Canada....

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Another in the list of "no shit, Sherlock" findings.
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