sentences:  Save Our Society From Drugs (SOS) has also stated that decriminalizing cannabis will increase usage among teenagers, citing an increase in Alaskan youth cannabis usage when cannabis was decriminalized.However, cannabis use rose in all states in the 1970s, and the DEA does not say whether or not Alaska started out higher than the national average.Following decriminalization, Alaska youth had lower rates of daily use of cannabis than their peers in the rest of the US.