New American teenager has already used cannabis, says new study

According to a new study, one in 11 American teenagers used a vaporizer to consume cannabis.

The results of the 2016 National Survey of Youth Smoking, conducted among more than 20,000 high school and high school students, revealed that about 9% of them had used cannabis. vaporised.

Applied across the United States, this would mean that two million young people used a vaporizer to quench their thirst.

Officials say spray companies need to do more to prevent public harm.

The report – published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (Jama) Paediatrics Edition – suggests that more and more children are using the electronic device to inhale marijuana fumes.

"The use of marijuana in these products is of particular concern because cannabis use among young people can adversely affect learning and memory and can adversely affect academic achievement and education." said Katrina Trivers.

According to the study, 12.4% of high school students and 4.5% of college students reported having sprayed cannabis.

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Vaping works by heating a chamber containing nicotine or cannabis oil until the liquid vaporizes.

Officials warn that we know little about its effects on health – for about a decade or so only – despite the widely held belief that it is less damaging than smoking.

The research comes just after the director of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned that companies in the vaporization phase had two months to demonstrate that they were striving to keep the devices out of reach of young people or could be closed.

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Last Wednesday, FDA chief Scott Gottlieb said: "The worrying and accelerated trajectory of use we see in young people and the path to addiction must stop."