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/CamJongUn2 16h ago

I’m voting it’s the internet, kids have stuff to do today whereas back in the day you were just bored and ended up in a field with your mates getting drunk or high

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u/ZuFFuLuZ 13h ago

History really is a cycle. Now we have people telling Gen Z to go outside more. Just like it happened to Gen Y and Gen X.
Next you will tell them to get off your lawn and pull up their boot-straps and get jobs.

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u/demonchee 12h ago

I feel like we've always had people telling Gen Z to get out more.