Talk:Drug, alcohol, tobacco abuse rising among California teens

It is interesting to note that California has some of the strictest laws concerning drugs, alcohol, and tobacco:

• It has its own mini Controlled Substances Act.
• It has its own drug analog act, going into detail about what is classified as a controlled substance analog.
• Ninety-five percent Ethanol cannot be purchased unless it is denatured.
• The spores of various mushroom strains are illegal to have, although every other state except GA has no such restrictions.
• No one is allowed to smoke in any building

Good article, I'm glad you brought that up. Andresv 00:19, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Copyright/licensing

This article is copied verbatim from the James Logan Courier, a student newspaper. There is no copyright statement or license covering re-use on the website of the paper. I have written the address listed on the website asking for clarification on their terms for re-use. --Chiacomo ^(talk) 02:01, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

I have received an email from the author specifically releasing this article to Wikinews under CC-BY (with attribution to Wikinews). --Chiacomo ^(talk) 15:36, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

It seems reasonable to publish this story then. I've even made it the second lead. Karen ratio

wording?

Whilst reading this article, I "stumbled" across the following sentence: "Those who had used marijuana in the past year rose from 14.11 percent of 14.6 percent over the period."

Help a non-native speaker, and tell me, whether the part "... 14.11 p. of 14.6 p. ..." is properly formulated concerning grammar. I wouldn´t have chosen such a wording, but as I mentioned, I´m not a native speaker of English. Thanks Gumboyaya 08:52, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

I believe "to" is the word to go with here. --Deprifry|+T+ 08:55, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Yip, quite obvious actually, but I read and reread, and could only figure out, that the sentence didn´t "taste" well.

Cheers! Gumboyaya 12:26, 3 May 2006 (UTC)