- A new study looks at US 12th graders.
- It asks about cannabis use and alcohol.
- Students use cannabis in several different ways.
- They can smoke, vape, eat, or dab.
- Many students use two or more ways to use cannabis.
- Those students binge drink more often than others.
- Smoking, vaping, and dabbing link to binge drinking.
- Edible use did not link to binge drinking.
- Researchers used national survey data to study this.
- Researchers say education and regulation could help.
Difficult words
- cannabis — a drug that some people smoke or eat
- vape — to breathe in vapor from an electronic devicevaping
- edible — food that has a drug inside
- binge drink — to drink a lot of alcohol in a short timebinge drinking
- researcher — a person who studies and collects informationResearchers
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Discussion questions
- Do you think education can help students?
- Which way to use cannabis do you know?
- Have you heard of a national survey?
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