RESEARCHERS LOOKED FOR POT SMOKERS IN ALL THE RIGHT PLACES

Re: More young people smoke pot than tobacco, survey finds, March 6

A Vancouver Coastal Health survey has found that most youth in
Vancouver start smoking marijuana before their 15th birthday. The
reader is led to believe that these statistics reflect the entire
population of young people in Vancouver. How shocking!

Oh, but then we discover that the researchers sought out their
subjects in shopping malls, coffee shops and at beaches and parks.

Hmm. What if the researchers had sought out their subjects on soccer
fields, in libraries, in music classes, or in gyms?

The results would have been entirely different, I'm sure.

I hope that young people reading these headlines don't feel they're
missing out on something.

Shelley Hrdlitschka

North Vancouver