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Pot vaping up sharply

  • By Neita Cecil The Dalles Chronicle
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A 2019 state survey shows about 20 percent of Oregon 11th graders use marijuana, a rate unchanged from 2017, but one method of ingesting it, vaping, was up nearly 300 percent.

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State responds to vaping crisis

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In response to the nationwide vaping injury crisis, the state of Oregon has launched media campaigns aimed at encouraging people who vape to quit and preventing others from starting.

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Vaping sickens TDHS students

  • By Neita Cecil The Dalles Chronicle
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The Dalles High School officials reported to police Nov. 14 they believed a student brought a THC vape pen to school, which resulted in two other students being hospitalized, according to police logs. THC is the main active ingredient of marijuana.

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Roots and Branches: A legalization lament

  • Maija Yasui
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I was a teen in the infamous Sixties, a truly oxymoronic era, where history would have you believe that adolescents and young adults grooved to psychedelic music, lost in a haze of dope, believing they were seeing the world more clearly than their parents ever could or would. That everyone who came of age in the era had an endless stream of sex partners, used every drug imaginable, never worked at a “real” job and only cared about getting high.