NEW YORK, NY, June 18, 2008 From 1992 to 2006, as the potency of
seized marijuana almost tripled (3.2 to 8.8 percent THC
concentration), medical diagnoses of marijuana abuse and dependence
for teen admissions to treatment increased 492 percent 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.
The report reveals that while such medical diagnoses of marijuana
abuse and dependence soared, the number of medical diagnoses for abuse
and dependence involving alcohol and all other drugs declined 37
percent.
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