Large majority of Colorado students aren’t using marijuana — no matter what a Texas baseball coach thinks
When a Texas college baseball coach told a prospective recruit that hed blacklisted athletes from Colorado over concerns about marijuana use, it brought swift rebuke from across the country and a pink slip from the coachs school.
But it also mangled a pretty basic fact about post-legalization Colorado: The kids arent all stoned.
There are two main surveys that measure marijuana use among Colorado youth one run by the federal government and one run by the state and on this topic they agree. A large majority of Colorado high school students are not using marijuana regularly or even infrequently. And a still-sizable majority say they have never used marijuana.
The most recent data from the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey, which is run by the state, is from 2015 so, one ...
