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Science 14 September 1973:
Vol. 181. no. 4104, pp. 1067 - 1070
DOI: 10.1126/science.181.4104.1067
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Adolescent Marihuana Use: Role of Parents and Peers

Denise Kandel 1

1 Biometrics Research, New York State Department of Mental Hygiene, and School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 West 168 Street, New York 10032

In order to examine the relative influence of parents and peers on marihuana use among adolescents, independent data have been obtained from adolescents, their parents, and their best school friends in a sample of secondary school students in New York State. The data indicate that drug use by peers exerts a greater influence than drug use by parents. Friends are more similar in their use of marihuana than in any other activity or attitude. Parental use of psychotropic drugs has only a small influence, mostly related to maternal use. Peer and parental influences are synergistic; the highest rates of marihuana usage are observed among adolescents whose parents and friends are drug users.


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