"Canadian students are at the high end of using marijuana frequently,'' said William Boyce of Queens' University, principal investigator of the study on the health and well-being of the country's youth.
The 2002 study of 7,000 kids aged 11 to 15 from across Canada, released Tuesday, found that about 40 per cent reported using marijuana in the previous year, about three per cent more than in Switzerland, second on the list of 35 countries conducting similar studies.
The Netherlands, where the sweet weed has long been decriminalized, was in the middle of the pack, said Boyce, a professor of community health at the Kingston, Ont., university.
