The Boston area is the nation's capital for marijuana use, according to a federal study that found that more than 12 percent of the area's youths and adults smoked pot. Public health officials and other observers chalked the high ranking up to the large population of college students and to relatively liberal attitudes toward marijuana in the region.
It's not just marijuana.
Five of the 15 areas with the highest rates of marijuana use nationwide were in Massachusetts. Southeast and Central Massachusetts followed the Boston area, which for the purposes of the study included Suffolk County and parts of Norfolk County. Massachusetts also reported some of the highest usage rates of alcohol and cocaine.
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Guess what city is second? Boulder, Colorado, home of Ward Churchill.
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As one of the big bloggers would say, heh!
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