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Title: High School Athletes and Marijuana Use
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1. Ewing, Bradley T.
High School Athletes and Marijuana Use
Journal of Drug Education 28,2 (1998): 147-157.
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Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Baywood Publishing Co.
Keyword(s): Athletics (see SPORTS); Drug Use; Gender Differences; High School Students; Sports (also see ATHLETICS); Substance Use

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Identifying groups of young people that might be especially susceptible to marijuana use would aid in the design and implementation of drug policy programs. This article examines whether those who participated in high school athletics have a different pattern of marijuana use than comparable non-athletes. The results indicate that male athletes have a higher incidence of marijuana use than non-athletes. The same is not true for female athletes, who actually engage in less marijuana use than their non-athlete counterparts. However, female athletes are more likely than non-athletes to wait until their post-high school years to try the drug for the first time.
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Ewing, Bradley T. "High School Athletes and Marijuana Use." Journal of Drug Education 28,2 (1998): 147-157.