Yale Study Reveals Many Teens Are Using E-Cigarettes to Secretly Smoke Weed, Surprising No One

Everyone's grandparents are absolutely shocked, while the rest of the world says "not a terrible idea, really!"

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Everyone is high and we're all going to Hell! Definitely not, but a new study from researchers at Yale will certainly find its way into the obnoxious laps of the fearfully uninformed soon enough. According to the study, roughly 27 percent of high school students who have used both weed and e-cigarettes are using their respective devices for concealed weed consumption. Aside from the obvious "duh!" factor, this apparently marks the first study of its kind.

"It’s so much easier to conceal e-cigarette pot use," Meghan Rabbitt Morean, an assistant professor at Oberlin College and co-author of the study, tells USA Today. "Everybody knows that characteristic smell of marijuana, but this vapor is different. It’s possible that teenagers are using pot in a much less detectable way.” Researchers surveyed nearly 4,000 students from Connecticut, with 28 percent of participants saying they had tried some form of e-cigarette use at least once. Adding that this research is still "so new," Morean is asking for other states to conduct similar studies for a more accurate national assessment.

Though the debate surrounding the potential health benefits or harm of the e-cigarette is still a source of contention for both supporters and detractors alike, the science on weed has grown much more definitive since it began its path toward widespread legalization in America. In fact, a recent study published by the American Psychological Association revealed that smoking a ton of weed as a teen has no negative health effects at all.

 

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