Discover the alarming truth: Marijuana dispensaries catering to minors.

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This is The Drug Report’s ([link removed]) Friday Fact report - Marijuana Dispensaries Sell to Thousands of Minors Every Year

In case you missed it, this week’s edition of the Drug Review ([link removed]) , the new editorial portion of The Drug Report, covered several state-level health surveys focused on school-aged students. The surveys found evidence that regulated dispensaries sell to thousands of minors every year.

Key Highlights
* When high school users in Arizona were asked how they obtained marijuana, 21.0% of 12th graders, 13.1% of 10th graders, and 8.2% of 8th graders said they “bought it from a dispensary within Arizona,” according to the 2022 Arizona Youth Survey ([link removed]) .
* The 2021 Washington State Healthy Youth Survey ([link removed]) found that 12% of 12th graders, 6% of 10th graders, and 3% of 8th graders who obtained marijuana in the past month answered, “I bought it from a store.”
* The 2021 Massachusetts Youth Health Survey ([link removed]) found that 4.3% of high school students who used marijuana in the past month answered, “I bought it from a store.”
* When past-month high school users in Colorado were asked to identify the one source where they “usually” obtained marijuana, 4.9% answered, “I bought it at a marijuana store or center,” the 2021 Healthy Kids Colorado Survey ([link removed]) found. An additional 1.7% answered, “I used a marijuana delivery service.”
* The California Healthy Kids Survey ([link removed]) looked at the issue from a slightly different angle, asking students to identify where their peers obtained marijuana. According to the 2017/19 survey, 19.3% of 11th graders, 12.0% of 9th graders, and 5.0% of 7th graders said their peers “buy it at a marijuana dispensary.”


These findings, based on self-reported answers from minors, disprove the claim that marijuana can be effectively regulated and stores can be trusted to not sell to underage users.

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You can read the first Drug Review article, which highlights the outcomes of Oregon’s failed experiment with the decriminalization of all drugs, HERE ([link removed]) .
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