Back to episode — Episode 2698 CWSA 12/23/24
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a day have a 17 to 77 percent lower chance of head and neck cancer. Thank you very much. Yep, feeling pretty good in the neck and head area. The rest of me is a mess, but my neck and head? Perfect. All right. Did you know, according to Neoscope, that teenagers today are way down on drug use? Did you know that? It's like way
← Previous segment →down. So research shows the trend is unprecedented, they say, and the experts are puzzled because they can't figure out why teens are abstaining from drugs more than ever before. So I don't know the answer to that question, but I could give you one possibility. One possibility is that the mix of students has changed quite a bit. If I look at my local schools, there's quite a big increase in immigrants, basically. So I wonder if the people coming from other countries have the same rate of drug use as the ones that are already here. Specifically, well, yeah, just in general I wonder if they have the same drug use. Probably not. So some of it might be immigration, but
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some of it might be that when marijuana became legal, old people like me started doing it and it became super uncool to do what your grandfather was doing. Could be that. Could be that. It could be that they're getting their dopamine from another source. Maybe they're just getting it from their phones instead. It's sort of a dopamine replacement. But I will tell you that locally I was impressed a…
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