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Marijuana Use

The survey states that 18.5 per cent of
the students polled admitted to the use of
marijuana at least once within the past
year. When broken down by sex, 25.5 per
cent of the boys and 9.9 per cent of the
girls said that they had smoked dope.

Additionally, 11.5 per cent of the
students said they had used hard drugs
during the past 12 months. Of these
students, 16.8 per cent were males and 5
per cent were females.

Numerically, Charlottesville ranks
second only to Northern Virginia in the
amount of drugs used among students.
However, this figure could be a sampling
error due to the comparably small
population of this area, noted Wayne S.
Ferguson and William L. Howard,
conductors of the survey.