More Canadian young people appear to be butting out when it comes to cigarettes, but a growing number of pot smokers has put Canada at the top of the international heap for marijuana use among young adolescents, a new study suggests.

"Canadian students are at the high end of using marijuana frequently," said William Boyce of Queens' University, principal investigator of the study on the health and well-being of the country's youth.

The 2002 study of 7,000 kids aged 11 to 15 from across Canada, released today, found that about 40 per cent reported using marijuana in the previous year, about three per cent more than in Switzerland, second on the list of 35 countries conducting similar studies.
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