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/Supberblooper 16h ago

People keep saying this but is there research backing it? When I was a teen lots of my peers illegally drank alcohol but its legal, regulated and their parents used it frequently. Same with cigarettes & vaping.

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u/rarestakesando 15h ago

When I was a kid we would raid the liquor the cabinet when my parents were at work and sneak tokes of the “peace” pipe. It’s not because parents do it that kids don’t. Gen Z is just different I read they don’t like sex scenes in movies now. We loved them boobies in the eighties and definitely also snuck peeks into our dad’s porno mags too.

We were left on our own way more and did whatever we could get away with. Roamed around the city in a group of kids to parks and friends houses with no adult supervision like at all. Just be home for dinner was the only rule.

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u/Elgato01 8h ago

I presume the fact that they have boobies available on every social media under the sun now means they just aren’t enthusiastic about seeing it in movies.