Despite medical marijuana, pot use slips among Montana teens

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Fewer Montana high school students report using marijuana now than two years ago, despite worries that legalization of medical marijuana would boost pot smoking among teenagers.

In a survey of more than 9,000 Montana high school students, 39 percent said they'd tried marijuana, down 3 percent from two years ago.

Asked if they had used marijuana in the past month, 21 percent said yes. That was down 2 percent from two years ago and down 4 percent from 1999.

The Montana education office pointed to a number of positive trends:

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[KittyWampus]

1. Money's tight. Maybe Mom & Dad don't have as much cash laying around.

[WingDinger]

2. Make pot less naughty, and fewer kids will partake.

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3. Kids these days are more into Rx drugs

Easier to steal from Grandma's medicine cabinet than to meet up with a dealer on the streets.