The 1998 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse , released today by the U.S.Department of Health and Human Services, found that medicinal marijuana reform does not lead to increased non-medical marijuana use. It strains credulity to say that this law would affect teen marijuana usage rates when the much more tolerant California law has had no effect. By now, the news that marijuana has medical benefits has reached the ears of children and adults nationwide. There was no significant change in illicit drug use in California between 1997 and 1998, either for youth or for adults. Clearly, this hasn't happened.
Teens obviously understand the difference between medicine and drug abuse.