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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) – A drug testing company says it’s seeing a big spike in children using marijuana following the passage of Amendment 64.

The drug testing company, Conspire, says it’s now being called on a weekly basis to test students in one Colorado school district instead of monthly. It’s not just more students, but it appears they’re using pot more often.

Prior to the passage of Amendment 64, drug testing companies typical would use a kit to for test for marijuana that reveals a false or positive result right on the spot. But now another kind of kit is more common. It’s a laboratory analysis because they need to know how high someone is.

“I’ve seen a lot more people just walking down the street smoking (joints),” high school student Irie Johnson said.

“In high school it has kind of gotten out of hand,” student Alaina Tanenbaum said.

Experts say the test results show that children are getting higher than ever with alarming levels of THC, marijuana’s active ingredient, in their bodies.

“A typical kid (is) between 50 and 100 nanograms. Now were seeing these up in the over 500, 700, 800, climbing,” Jo McGuire said.

McGuire is in a work group for the state’s marijuana task force. She also works for Conspire, which is based in Colorado Springs.

Conspire now does drug testing in four school districts in El Paso County when students are suspected of being high while on campus. McGuire says 100 to 200 nanograms is typical of someone who recently used pot, or is a steady user who smokes once or twice a week. The 300 to 500 range is a daily user. But high levels of THC on a growing brain is unhealthy, according to McGuire.

“In the past we’ve used the term stoner or fried, and I’m now understanding why we use those terms, because you literally take your brain and you rob it from the ability to fire the way it’s supposed to fire, so your memory is impaired,” McGuire said.

Many of the teens that Conspire is testing, are also drivers, and they say those teens should not be behind the wheel of a car with such high levels of THC.

“Absolutely not. And if I was a parent and I was paying a car payment and I was paying insurance and I was putting a kid behind the wheel of a car to go to school, your sending that child out knowingly impaired, and we’ll lose kids over it, unfortunately,” McGuire said.

Some new studies that have been published say the risk of a car accident increases two-fold after someone consumes pot.

Drug Testing Company Sees Spike In Children Using Marijuana

Brackite wrote:Well, most teenagers are going to do at least one of these things:

1. have sex
2. smoke cigarettes
3. smoke marijuana
4. drink alcohol beverages
..(snip)..

Brackite wrote:...(un-snip)... If I had to choose which one of these four that teenagers will do, I would choose for them to have sex.

subgenius wrote:

Brackite wrote:Well, most teenagers are going to do at least one of these things:

1. have sex
2. smoke cigarettes
3. smoke marijuana
4. drink alcohol beverages
..(snip)..

assumes facts not in evidence...CFR

47.4% had ever had sexual intercourse
15.3% had had sex with four or more people during their life
http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/sexualbehaviors/

19.5% of high school students smoked one or more cigarettes in the previous month
(5% for middle school)
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statist ... /index.htm

The 2012 survey shows that 6.5 percent of high school seniors smoke marijuana daily, up from 5.1 percent five years ago. Nearly 23 percent say they smoked it in the month prior to the survey, and just over 36 percent say they smoked within the previous year
http://www.nih.gov/news/health/dec2012/nida-19.htm

39% drank some amount of alcohol
http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/ ... inking.htm

seems like the statistics contradict your assumption that MOST teenagers are going to do one of the rather limited list you provided.
And most likely the overlap between the above options diminishes the actual number of those participating.

Brackite wrote:...(un-snip)... If I had to choose which one of these four that teenagers will do, I would choose for them to have sex.

pervert.
you should choose the unwritten option #5, the option which the majority are going to do, - the option that is "none of the above".

The fact is that people are going to have sex. You can shut your ears and scream LALALALALALA as much as you like, but they will have sex. And some of them will be unmarried, or married without being ready for children. That is simple reality.

Brackite wrote:naïve.
I did Not say most teenagers are going to do all four. I stated that most teenagers are going to do at least one of these things. And Yes IF I had to chose which one of the four of these things that teenagers would do it would be have sex. The majority of teenagers do not choose "option #5" as much as we wish that they did.

As beastie once stated here:

The fact is that people are going to have sex. You can shut your ears and scream LALALALALALA as much as you like, but they will have sex. And some of them will be unmarried, or married without being ready for children. That is simple reality.

Brackite wrote:Well, most teenagers are going to do at least one of these things:

1. have sex
2. smoke cigarettes
3. smoke marijuana
4. drink alcohol beverages

If I had to choose which one of these four that teenagers will do, I would choose for them to have sex.

Just becsue you and Beastie share the same pedophile fantasy of all these teenagers having sex does not make it true. The data concludes that MOST teenagers do not behave the way you are proposing (or hoping).