20% of upper secondary school students in Norway say that they had used cannabis, but only just over 6% have used it in the past month, according to a survey conducted by the National Institute of Public Health (FHI).
A total of 3,500 students from 34 upper secondary schools participated in the survey. 15% stated that they had used cannabis during the last 12 months, and 6.2% stated that they had used it in the last 30 days.
The study is the first to also examine young people’s knowledge, attitudes, and motives related to cannabis, in addition to their cannabis use experiences.
“We found that many students lack knowledge about cannabis. The students overestimated, among other things, how many other young people use the drug. Some also had misconceptions about cannabis use,” Anne Line Bretteville-Jensen, a researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, stated.
She says that the desire not to be caught by the police (48%), the consideration for parents (44%), the danger of addiction (41%), and the price of cannabis (36%) were the most frequently stated reasons for not using more cannabis among those who already had some experience with using cannabis.
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