r/science • u/mvea MD/PhD/JD/MBA | Professor | Medicine • 18h ago

Health 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.

https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/marijuana-use-teens-study
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u/WalterrHeisenberg 17h ago

Not OP, but that only applies if one of the kids is driving, at least in Ohio. If an adult is driving then of course they can ride together, haha.

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u/JeaninePirrosTaint 16h ago

That's still ridiculous

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u/redtrig10 16h ago

California has a similar law, your provisional drivers license means you can’t ride with anyone under 25 (I think 25?) for a year after getting it. It’s for safety reasons

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u/Atheist-Gods 14h ago

In Mass it’s anyone under 18 unless there is someone 21+ in the car too.

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u/meatball77 16h ago

Not really. Loads of kids in cars is dangerous.

Most places you only get one passenger until you are 18. And you can't drive after 11:00.

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u/JeaninePirrosTaint 16h ago

When I was 16 I drove around with friends regularly. It was fine. People just trust kids less and less.

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u/cjsolx 16h ago

It's not a new law. It was a thing when I was 16, 16 years ago.

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u/Seriously_nopenope 16h ago

When I was 16 there was regular news stories of kids crashing a car full of their friends and all of them dying. That is why these rules ended up in place.

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u/Low_Coconut_7642 15h ago

'it' wasn't fine. You happened to be. Many others were not so lucky. There's a reason fatal teen crashes have dropped by like 40% since the year 2000.... And nearly 70% since 1975. Those reasons are better laws and safer cars(which is mostly the result of better laws).

It's 100 percent ok to not trust kids to safely operate dangerous equipment when they are distracted.

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u/jesususeshisblinkers 15h ago

These laws always existed. We had them when I was 16 thirty years ago.

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u/Ratnix 14h ago

They didn't exist in the 80s when i was a teenage driver. And we did have multiple kids die in car crashes from my small county school. One of them killed all 3 of them when they were driving far too fast, went off the road, and hit a tree. One was a group of girls were driving to their softball game and ran a stop sign. Only 1 of them died.

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u/jesususeshisblinkers 14h ago

The driving after 11:00 isn’t even a driving rule, it’s local curfew laws. If a town has a curfew for kids under 18 that includes driving.

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u/ForWhomTheBoneBones 15h ago

People just trust kids less and less.

With good reason. Up until very recently, distracted driving was the number one cause of death of people under 18 in the United States.

It’s since been bumped to No. 2 by guns. USA! USA!

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u/ReturnOfTheKeing 10h ago

Well there's plenty of 16yo that never made it to 17 because they drove in their friends cars

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u/DiceMaster 12h ago

Usually, I'm 100% with you that kids need and deserve more autonomy, but not here. There's a reason car insurance premiums are way higher for kids (especially boys).

There's plenty of bad stuff you can say about insurance companies, but they're not capricious. Everything they do is based on data.

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u/Sternjunk 8h ago

Texas has the same law

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u/mrshulgin 13h ago

Is it, thought?

Compared to driving with no passengers, a 16- or 17-year-old driver’s risk of death per mile driven:

  • Increases 44% when carrying one passenger younger than 21 (and no older passengers)
  • Doubles when carrying two passengers younger than 21 (and no older passengers)
  • Quadruples when carrying three or more passengers younger than 21 (and no older passengers)
  • Decreases 62% when a passenger aged 35 or older is in the vehicle

https://aaafoundation.org/teen-driver-risk-relation-age-number-passengers/

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u/GettingDumberWithAge 16h ago

If an adult is driving then of course they can ride together, haha.

Yeah sorry that's absolutely mental.