
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, September 15, 1993                   TAG: 9309150164
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-7   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

TEENS' MARIJUANA USE ROSE, SURVEY INDICATES

After gradually declining during the 1980s, teen-age use of marijuana increased nearly 16 percent last year, a drug prevention group said Tuesday.

Nineteen percent of high school students surveyed said they used marijuana at least once in the 1992-93 school year, up from the 16.4 percent who said they had used it the previous year, said the National Parents' Resource Institute for Drug Education - or PRIDE.

- Associated Press

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