2015年9月7日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Education News


More Teens Using E-Cig Devices to Vaporize Pot, Researchers Say

Posted: 07 Sep 2015 12:40 PM PDT

More Teens Using E-Cig Devices to Vaporize Pot, Researchers SayTeens are increasingly turning to electronic cigarettes not to get their tobacco fix, but instead to inhale pot. A new study published in the medical journal Pediatrics found that teens have devised ways to turn e-cigarettes into devices for hashish oil, marijuana, wax and other cannabis products. Researchers surveyed 3,847 Connecticut high school students about their drug and e-cigarette use and found that students using e-cigarettes to vaporize cannabis was 27 times higher than the adult rate.


James Franco to Teach Film Class to High School Students

Posted: 07 Sep 2015 09:20 AM PDT

James Franco to Teach Film Class to High School StudentsThis article, James Franco to Teach Film Class to High School Students, originally appeared on TVGuide.com. There's just no stopping James Franco. The actor, filmmaker and college teacher has now decided to share his gifts with impressionable high school students. Franco announced on Instagram that he would be teaching an eight-part film class at Palo Alto High School in California. According to Vanity Fair ... Read More > Other Links From TVGuide.com James Franco


Haiti wants to reform failing school system

Posted: 07 Sep 2015 08:23 AM PDT

A student works on a math exercise on the blackboard after the visit of Former US President Bill Clinton to the school Union Des Apotres in Citie Soleil, Port au Prince, on 17 February 2014Port-au-Prince (AFP) - Nearly three million Haitian children are returning to school Monday to face an educational system rife with exclusion and failure. But one minister is trying to turn the tide.


Teens Use E-Cigarettes to 'Vape' Pot

Posted: 07 Sep 2015 12:54 AM PDT

Nearly one-fifth of high school students who use e-cigarettes have tried putting pot into the devices, according to a new study of Connecticut teens. It's possible, Morean said, that vaping pot appeals to teens in part because it's harder to detect than smoking.

High schoolers use e-cigarettes to vape marijuana: U.S. study

Posted: 06 Sep 2015 09:12 PM PDT

People use electronic vaporizers with cannabidiol (CBD)-rich hemp oil while attending the International Cannabis Association Convention in New YorkBy Larry Hand NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Nearly one in five high school students who said they used electronic cigarettes to vaporize nicotine also used them to vaporize pot, according to a survey of nearly 4,000 Connecticut teens. The study, published on Monday in the journal Pediatrics, is the first evidence that teens are using electronic cigarettes to vaporize cannabis, the researchers said. The paper by Meghan Morean of Oberlin College in Ohio and colleagues raises concerns that the rising popularity of e-cigarettes may encourage teens to use the devices to vaporize cannabis, potentially exposing them to higher concentrations of tetrahydrocannabinol or THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.


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