[Updated] CASA: Marijuana Potency up 175 Percent, Medical Diagnoses, Treatment Admissions, ER Findings for Teen Marijuana Use up Sharply
Thursday, June 19th, 2008 at 12:36 pm | By: Radical Russ
New CASA* Report Finds: Marijuana Potency up 175 Percent, Medical Diagnoses, Treatment Admissions, ER Findings for Teen Marijuana Use up Sharply
NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire – June 18, 2008) – Despite reported declines in teen marijuana use, in 2007 almost 11 million teens report having used marijuana. For those using the drug, four alarming trends are of grave concern for parents and teens, according to “Non-Medical Marijuana III: Rite of Passage or Russian Roulette?,” a new report by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University.From 1992 – 2006:
– There was a 175 percent jump in the potency of marijuana (3.2 to 8.8 percent THC concentration in seized samples).
The potency zombie just will not die! Here it is, you can go read the report yourself. On page 14, it is interesting to note that the percentage of “domestic” seizures compared to “non-domestic” varies from 20.9% to 45.5% of the overall sample when considering the “average”. And as we learned from the Drug Czar’s blog, “domestic” means unharvested marijuana not ready for consumption. Why would you average in the “domestic” marijuana when the point is to claim that the marijuana being consumed by teens today is so much more potent?
And are the kids these days really getting a hold of the more potent ganja? A look at page 6 shows us that between 12/16/07 – 3/15/08 they analyzed 1,290 samples, of that, 3.25% of it was hash or hash oil, the really potent stuff. So 96.75% of what’s seized lately is cannabis.
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