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• More kids smoking pot than tobacco  

Marijuana is being smoked regularly by more Lake County high school students than tobacco, according to a new in-depth study of five local school districts.

And among the districts surveyed, East Chicago students reported by far the highest rates of alcohol and marijuana usage, the study from the Lake County Drug Free Alliance found. . . .

The study was presented as an inaugural epidemiological profile of Lake County for the Drug Free Alliance. The alliance intends to use the study to help convince local organizations to focus their drug-prevention efforts in areas that need the most attention.

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