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Originally Posted by peter12
The evidence I just provided is pretty much convincing. Youth use spikes after legal accessibility increases.
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Right, but is it a one-time occurrence or do the amount of heavy users increase? It seems it's more the former than the latter.
Here's another study from Portugal which basically shows that lifetime levels do spike, but past month and past year usage remains about the same.
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Portugal#Prevalence
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In the context of school populations, the results of national studies have shown that the use of drugs that had been increasing since the 90’s declined for the first time in 2006 and 2007, noting up in 2010 and 2011 again an increase of drug use in these populations, alerting to the need for investment in prevention. In all studies carried out in 2010 and 2011, cannabis remains the drug preferentially used (prevalence of lifetime use ranged from 2.3% in students from 13 years old and 29.7% in 18 years old), with values close to the prevalence of use of any drug (between 4.4% in students of 13 years and 31.2% in 18 years). Followed by prevalence of lifetime use far below, cocaine, ecstasy and amphetamines among younger students, and amphetamines, LSD and ecstasy among the older ones. Despite the increases registered in the prevalence of drug use between 2006/2007 and 2010/2011 especially cannabis but also other drugs such as LSD and amphetamines, the prevalence’s of use of any drug among younger students (13-15 years) remain lower than the ones registered in 2001/2003."
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