双语新闻：大麻的危险性低于酒精与烟草？

2014-08-25 17:52:31来源：可可英语

　　Although marijuana use had been declining among high school students for more than adecade, in recent years it has started to climb, in contrast to continuing declines in cigarettesmoking and alcohol use. Marijuana was found -- alone or in combination with other drugs --in more than 455,000 patients visiting emergency rooms in 2011. Nearly 70 percent of theteenagers in residential substance-abuse programs run by Phoenix House, which operatesdrug and alcohol treatment centers in 10 states, listed marijuana as their primary problem.

　　尽管十年多以来，大麻在高中生中的使用率已经下降，但近年又开始出现攀升，与此同时，吸烟和喝酒的比例一直在下降。2011年，有45.5万名急诊病人被发现使用大麻(以及其他药品)。“凤凰屋”(Phoenix House)在10个州中经营着毒品与酗酒治疗中心，在它所主办的家庭反滥用毒品计划中，近70%的受助青少年将大麻列为自己最初的问题。

　　Those are challenges for regulators in any state that chooses to legalize marijuana. But they arefamiliar challenges, and they will become easier for governments to deal with once more of thembring legal marijuana under tight regulation.

　　这些都是选择将大麻合法化的各州管理者所面临的挑战。但这都是一些熟悉的挑战，各州政府一旦将合法化的大麻置于严格管理之下，问题就会变得容易应付得多。

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