🪴📲 Stat of the Day: Marijuana businesses have found a way to finagle their way around the Controlled Substances Act, using social media to launch viral ads that are often exposed to minors, according to experts. The inviting and colorful ads utilize young salespeople (called “budtenders”) and candy-like packaging to potentially attract younger audiences and future customers.

• A 2024 national survey found ~7% of eighth graders, ~16% of 10th graders, and ~26% of 12th graders said they used cannabis in the past 12 months, with those levels roughly stable compared to the previous year.

Not just teens: Calls to poison control centers about children aged 5-and-younger consuming edibles containing THC rose from 207 to 3,054 over a four-year period (+1,375%), according to a January 2023 study.

Big picture: While recreational weed is legalized for people 21+ in many US states, marijuana is widely considered to be harmful for teens and adolescents.

🤔 Did You Know? The Earth’s magnetic field can play an Uno reverse card on itself, resulting in a flip in the locations of the magnetic north and south poles. Our planet has done so at least 183 times over the past 83 million years, with studies showing this magnetic reversal is statistically random and can’t currently be predicted.

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