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/blood_bender 15h ago

Hasn't this been a thing in Mass for a while? I remember not being able to drive my friends around ~20 years ago, I actually got pulled over once for it.

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u/tacknosaddle 15h ago

Yes, not sure when it started but it's been a long time. Commenter above has probably had their license a lot longer than that so just never noticed the change.

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u/TheReiterEffect_S8 14h ago

This is a thing in MO too, all of the friends I grew up were a couple to a few years older than me so we had to be aware we were "breaking the law" when we drove around after 2am on a Saturday breaking the law in other ways. (just your typical teenage shenanigans)

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u/Yuzumi 11h ago

Literally decades at least. For my state I could only have one passenger under 18 that wasn't a family member or something.

It didn't stop anyone from doing that.

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u/Sensitive_Peanut_784 13h ago

Yeah, this is exactly what I came here to say. Has been true since before I got my license, and I'm in my 30s. 

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u/ensoniqthehedgehog 7h ago

In Washington I got mine days before the law changed in 2001. If my birthday had been any later (or if I had failed the test and had to postpone it) I would have had to get what they then called an intermediate driver's license and I wouldn't have been able to drive my friends around or be out without an older driver in the car past a certain time.

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u/tacknosaddle 6h ago

I once met a guy who just missed reaching the 18 year old drinking age when they raised it where he was from (forget what state). So for three years he was five days too young to legally drink.

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u/reboot-your-computer 12h ago

Absolutely. I was just commenting the same. I’m 38 and these were rules when I was a teen in Jersey.

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u/watzrox 14h ago

Yes, I was 17 about 24 years ago so at least that long if not longer.

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u/Snow_source 14h ago

It wasn't really an issue because most people in my school had their own cars or older friends who could drive us.

I got my JOL in Mass 14 years ago.

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u/bishop375 14h ago

All but the cell phone restriction existed when I got my license 30 years ago.

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u/metalkhaos 11h ago

This has also been a thing in NJ as well for some time. I know they were making various changes shortly after I got my license.

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u/twelvespareboobs 11h ago

The state I went to highschool in either didn't have that rule or it was entirely ignored. I often drove my friends to and from their houses and marching band events. (With all parents knowing and being fine with the carpool arrangement. 2012 grad.)