Interesting stuff, though I'm surprised that the writer concludes that this "craze" is a reality and not just parents getting worked up over nothing as people have in the past about "reefer madness" and various other faddy notions.<p>She does something she calls the PBS documentary on and moves very swiftly from lurid tales of "train parties" to cold stats on teenage experimentation which struck me as a strange leap to make if you weren't trying to imply something the numbers didn't actually show.<p>It did occur to me (as someone old enough to be married with a kid) that since this was published nearly 4 years ago, and given the demographics of hacker news, which seem to skew quite low, that some people here would be able to call this as BS from their own personal experiences.