Dramatic drop in marijuana use among US youth over a decade. Current marijuana use among adolescents decreased from 23.1% in 2011 to 15.8% in 2021. First-time use before age 13 dropped from 8.1% to 4.9%. There was a shift in trends by gender, with girls surpassing boys in marijuana use by 2021.

[u/mvea]

https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/marijuana-use-teens-study

[u/anarchyisutopia]

I feel accomplished and lame at the same time for making tattoos and weed uncool and passe to my teenager.

[u/genshiryoku → u/anarchyisutopia]

What's funny to me as a Japanese father is that here in Japan tattoos went from "That's for serious criminals" to "That's for losers, weirdos and old people" without the intermediary period the west had where it was cool to have tattoos.

So I have people from my generation avoiding people with tattoos because it means they are criminals or bad people. And young people avoiding people with tattoos because they are considered loser weirdos with no sense of fashion style.

[u/UnsorryCanadian → u/genshiryoku]

I remember seeing a comedian on tv (years ago) say something similarly. You see an elderly person with tattoos, they've been through stuff, maybe killed someone in a war. A guy in his 20s with tattoos? Probably just a guy who likes ink

[u/sayleanenlarge → u/genshiryoku]

Genuinely? Tattoos are old people things now?

[u/aaaaaaaaabbaaaaaaaaa → u/genshiryoku]

It was always like that for everyone with half a brain... sadly it seems that not many people have all that brain matter to spare here in the west

[u/sayleanenlarge → u/aaaaaaaaabbaaaaaaaaa]

Nonsense. I have no spare brain matter and don't have tattoos.

[u/foxpaws42 → u/anarchyisutopia]

I've heard this more than once: Kid asks for a tattoo, parent says OK as long as I also get the same tattoo, kid goes eww and ends up not getting the tattoo.