{"id":4143,"date":"2025-08-18T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/?p=7313204"},"modified":"2025-08-18T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T12:00:00","slug":"in-numbers-now-that-weed-is-legal-bc-teens-are-smoking-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/in420\/news\/4143\/in-numbers-now-that-weed-is-legal-bc-teens-are-smoking-less\/","title":{"rendered":"iN NUMBERS: Now that weed is legal BC teens are smoking less"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Getting stoned has never been more permitted in Canada, which means it has never been less cool for young people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Teenagers in BC are smoking less pot than they used to. If you really want to discourage your teen from smoking weed, light up a joint and call it &#8220;wacky tobacky&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are the numbers from BC\u2019s most&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mcs.bc.ca\/pdf\/blunt_talk_iii.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent survey of teen cannabis use in 2023:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>22:<\/strong>&nbsp;Per cent of British Columbian teens tried cannabis in 2023, down from 41 per cent in 1998.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>32:<\/strong>&nbsp;Per cent of students 12 to 18 years old tried weed in the BC Interior, higher than the provincial average.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>15:<\/strong>&nbsp;Per cent of youth in the Fraser Health region have tried cannabis, the lowest rate in BC.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>62:<\/strong>&nbsp;Per cent of BC teens who tried weed for the first time were between the ages of 13 and 15.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>54:<\/strong>&nbsp;Per cent of youths who had smoked some jazz cabbage worked 21 hours a week or more. Apparently not all stoner teens are lazy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>12:&nbsp;<\/strong>Per cent of teens in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcs.bc.ca\/pdf\/2023_bcahs_okanagan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Okanagan<\/a>&nbsp;smoked weed everyday the month they were surveyed, just like Dr. Dre&#8217;s advice in&nbsp;<em>The Next Episode<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>56:<\/strong>&nbsp;Per cent of teens in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcs.bc.ca\/pdf\/2023_bcahs_thompson_cariboo_shuswap.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Thompson-Cariboo-Shuswap<\/a>&nbsp;region get their weed by sharing it with friends.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>16:<\/strong>&nbsp;Per cent of young people used a stronger substance than weed, like mushrooms or cocaine.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>18:<\/strong>&nbsp;Per cent smoked weed 20 or more days in a month, up from 11 per cent in 2018.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>34:<\/strong>&nbsp;Per cent of pot smoking teens vape their cannabis rather than a good ol\u2019 doobie or bong hit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you really want to discourage your teen from smoking weed, light up a joint and call it &#8220;wacky tobacky&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":547,"featured_media":4144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"guid":"","source":"","byline":"","published":"","updated":"","_infotelid":"","_prepressid":"","_multisite_post_sync":null,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[727,380,381],"tags":[],"region":[309,310,311,312],"class_list":["post-4143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-local","category-topnews","region-kamloops","region-kelowna","region-penticton","region-vernon"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/in420\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/in420-hd-mediaitemid89988-2060.jpg","post_modified":"2025-08-18T05:00:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T12:00:00","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/in420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/in420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/in420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/in420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/in420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/in420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/in420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/in420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/in420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/in420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/in420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}