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SAMSHA 2021 Report 01/15/2023	Among people aged 12 or older who vaped any substance in the past month, 71.1% vaped nicotine, 40.1% vaped marijuana, and 19.2% vaped flavoring Vaping, SAMSHA
National Survey on Drug Use and Health 10/16/2019	Survey, SAMSHA
Results from the 2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health 07/03/2018	SAMSHA
SAMHSA Head Stands Firm on Marijuana's Dangers Also says younger generation of providers is key to opioid fight 04/26/2018	I'm here to tell you this is not a safe drug," McCance-Katz said during a town hall event at "NatCon18," the National Council for Behavioral Health's annual conference. "Americans have a right to know that and we should be telling them that," she continued. And while tobacco and alcohol rates have declined among pregnant women in recent years, illicit drugs -- mainly marijuana but also opioids -- have increased from 78,000 women in 2015 to 111,000 in 2016, she said. On the contrary, "marijuana use was associated with substantially increased risk of addiction and overdose for opioids," she said, citing research from Mark Olfson, MD, MPH, and colleagues in the American Journal of Psychiatry. McCance-Katz, SAMSHA, opioid
SAMSHA- Cannabis 10/27/2015	§Puff for puff, smoking marijuana is more dangerous than smoking cigarettes. http://162.99.3.213/products/manuals/matrix/ppt/marijuana.ppt 22.2 million (8.4%) people were current (past month) users of marijuana in 2014, making it the most used illicit drug. Marijuana use was most prevalent among people age 18 to 25 (with 19.6% using it in the past month). 7.4% of people aged 12 to 17 reported using marijuana. A higher percentage of males (10.9%) used marijuana in the past month than females (6%). SAMSHA, cigarettes