The Hood River County Prevention Department is utilizing a new marijuana education course for teens to education seventh and ninth graders about the drug.  Department director Belinda Ballah says training in the course was provided by CLEAR Alliance based out of Redmond, which is a part of the Oregon Statewide Coalition operated by public health, public safety, and community leaders.  She says the course runs over two class periods, and it is intended to develop critical thinking skills rather than tell kids what to do or not to do.  Ballah says they are awaiting the non-profit CLEAR Alliance to develop a curriculum to use at the fifth grade level.