CNN (3/12, Christensen ) reports, “High school seniors’ use of delta-8, a cannabis compound that’s sometimes marketed as ‘light THC’ or a legal alternative to weed, is ‘appreciable,’ according to a new study, particularly in states that don’t have a legal weed option for adults.” In the study, 11.4% of high school seniors “said they had used delta-8 THC in the past year, and even though weed is illegal for teens, 30.4% of the participants reported using it.” And among those “who reported that had they used delta-8 in the previous year, 68.1% used it at least three times, 35.4% had used it at least 10 times, and nearly 17% used it at least 40 times. Close to 91% of the delta-8 users also reported using weed.”
NBC News (3/12, Syal) reports, “The new study found that delta-8 use by high school seniors was higher in the South and the Midwest and in states where recreational marijuana isn’t legal.” It “was also more likely to be used in states where there are no regulations on its use.” Currently, delta-8 “is banned or severely restricted in 24 states and Washington, D.C., according to CBD Oracle, a cannabis consumer research company.” The study was published in JAMA.
Psychiatric News (3/12) reports researchers “examined data from the 2023 Monitoring the Future study, a nationally representative classroom-based survey of 8th, 10th, and 12th grade students” that “included 2,186 responses.”
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— “A significant number of US 12th-graders report using delta-8 products, study says, and it may be a public health concern,”Jen Christensen, CNN, March 12, 2024