By Mary Kekatos Health Reporter For Dailymail.com
Published: 00:00 GMT, 15 February 2019 | Updated: 00:00 GMT, 15 February 2019
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Teenagers smoke less weed in US states where medical marijuana is legal, a new study finds.
Researchers said that for every 100 teens, one fewer used pot in state that allows adults to buy and use cannabis for medical purposes, recreation, or both.
The effect was more obvious in minority teens, with nearly seven percent fewer black and Hispanic teens likely to smoke a joint in states where doing so is legal for adults than in states where it isn't.
Previous studies have looked at teenage use in individual states, and in states with recreational marijuana laws.
But the team, led by Boston College in Massachusetts, says its study is one of the first to look at the association between medical marijuana legalization and teen use.
A new study has found that there are 1.1 percent fewer teenage weed smokers in states with medical marijuana laws than in states without them (file image)
Medical marijuana is currently legal in 33 states and the District of Columbia.
Ten of those states - Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont and Washington - and DC have also legalized recreational use.
Critics have bemoaned that legalizing marijuana in any
