Marijuana Daily Use Higher Among College Kids Than Smoking

Marijuana use appears to be on the rise among U.S. college students, even surpassing the use of daily cigarette smoking for the first time since 2014, according to a series of national surveys.

"It's clear that for the past seven or eight years there has been an increase in marijuana use among the nation's college students," Lloyd Johnston, principal investigator of the study, said in a statement. "And this largely parallels an increase we have been seeing among high school seniors."

A team of researchers at the University of Michigan found that use has been growing slowly on the nation's campuses since. In fact, daily or near-daily marijuana use was reported by 5.9 percent of college students in 2014--the highest rate since 1980, according to Live Science.

The use of marijuana is also up from 3.5 percent in 2007; that's one in every 17 college students smoking marijuana just about every day, defined as use on 20 or more occasions in the prior 30 days.

Researchers also believe that some of the higher numbers may have to do with more marijuana acceptance.

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