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Juvenile illicit drug use Marijuana illicit drug use In 2010,nearly (48％)half of seniors said they had at least tried illicit drugs.Marijuana is by far the most commonly used illict drug. At the same year,44％ of high school seniors were reported that they had tried marijuana. Almost half of high school seniors had used marijuana at least once Proportion of seniors in 2010 who used Drug use was more common among males than females and among whites than blacks Blacks had lower alcohol,and drug use rates than Whites or Hispanic. For nearly all drugs,black seniors report lifetime,annual,30-day,and daily prevalence rates that are lower than those for their white and Hispanic counterparts. Gang problems Gangs A gang is a group of recurrently associating individuals or close friends or family with identifiable leadership and internal organization, identifying with or claiming control over territory in a community, and engaging either individually or collectively in violent or illegal behavior.Some criminal gang members are jumped in or have to prove their loyalty by committing acts such as theft or violence. History The earliest American street gangs emerged at the end of the American Revolutionary War in the early 1780s. However, these early street gangs had questionable legitimacy, and more serious gangs did not form until the early 1800s.[48] The earliest of these serious gangs formed in northeastern American cities, particularly in New York. Current numbers In 2007, there were approximately 785,000 active street gang members in the United States, according to the National Youth Gang Center. In 2011, the National Gang Intelligence Center of the Federal Bureau of Investigation asserted that There are approximately 1.4 million active street, prison, and outlaw gang members comprising more than 33,500 gangs in the United States. Types and structure Many types of gangs make up the general structure of an organized group. There are street gangs, which