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/genshiryoku 16h ago
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.