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Nearly one in five US high school students who said
they used electronic cigarettes to vaporize nicotine
also used them to vaporize pot.
Electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use is increasing
rapidly among high school students and it is
difficult to detect vaporized cannabis use because
it is easily concealed by the absence of the pungent
and characteristic odor of smoked cannabis, the
study authors wrote. And parents may not always know
What's happening.
In the spring of 2014, 3847 Connecticut high school
students completed an anonymous survey assessing
e-cigarette and cannabis use.
E-cigarette use among high schoolers tripled between
2013 and 2014, leaping from 4.5 percent to more than
13 percent, the researchers said in background
information in the study.
The results indicated that boys and younger students
were more likely to use e-cigarettes with marijuana
than were girls or older students.
High school students in the study were 27 times as
likely to use e-cigarettes to vaporize cannabis as
adults who use e-cigarettes, the researchers said.
Researchers evaluated lifetime rates of using
e-cigarettes to vaporize cannabis among all lifetime
e-cigarette users (27.9%), all lifetime cannabis
users (29.2%), and lifetime users of both
e-cigarettes and cannabis (18.8%); common means of
vaporizing cannabis including hash oil, wax infused
with Δ-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), dried cannabis
and demographic predictors of using e-cigarettes to
vaporize cannabis.
Students reported using e-cigarettes to vaporize
hash oil (e-cigarette 15.4%, cannabis 15.5%, dual
users 22.9%) and wax infused with THC (e-cigarette
10.0%, cannabis 10.2%, dual users 14.8%) and using
portable electronic vaporizers to vaporize dried
cannabis leaves (e-cigarette 19.6%, lifetime
cannabis 23.1%, lifetime dual users 29.1%).
For more information
Pediatrics
High School Students’ Use of Electronic Cigarettes
to Vaporize Cannabis
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