On the recordJuly 11, 1995
A 1994 University of Michigan study showed that 33 percent of all 8th graders, 40 percent of all 10th graders, and 50 percent of all 12th graders, high school seniors, have used some type of illicit drug. Marijuana. Among eighth graders, twice as many have experimented with marijuana in 1993 as compared to 1991. Daily use by high school seniors in this country is up by 50 percent. The drug abuse warning network showed an 8 percent increase in drug-related emergency room visits in 1991 due to overdoses, suicide attempts, and drug-related diseases. Approximately 70 percent of the illegal drugs coming into our country today enter by land, in cargo trucks, in cars over the Mexican border. Over half of all cocaine, 20 percent of all heroin, and 60 to 80 percent of foreign-grown marijuana available in the United States pass through or originates in Mexico. The demand in this country is so great.
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