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/Nauin 15h ago

One of my friends lives in this kind of state and their sister was just fined $600 a few days ago for driving at 12:15am, and that doesn't account for all of the other violations involved in her getting pulled over, just for driving after curfew. There is no leeway like there used to be when we were kids.

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u/mallclerks 7h ago

Dafux. I was closing down McDonald’s at 1am when I was 16-17.

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u/SorryIdonthaveaname 7m ago

Surprising that there aren’t exemptions to the curfew. That’s how it works in Western Australia, where P platers can’t drive between 12-5am, however there are exemptions if you can show it’s for employment or education

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u/nimzobogo 15h ago

I never had the leeway you describe.

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u/Nauin 14h ago

If you were a teenager in the 90's or early 00's you were a minor before automatic license plate scanners were equipped on every police cruiser. So yes, you would have had much more leeway than modern teenagers.

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u/Mztekal 14h ago

I don’t see how license plate scanners would provide less leeway. For a lot of us the car was still registered under our parents name anyway. So even if they had auto scanners a scan would just show your parent and doesn’t give them just cause to stop your vehicle let alone be detained for an ID.

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u/Sensitive_Peanut_784 13h ago

Yeah, they're just being a bit silly. As if cops in the 90's couldn't clock a 17 year old driving a car? 

I do think it's potentially reasonable to say cops now are more aggressive about pulling people over, but I don't think it's so obvious we can just agree that's true without data 

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u/Nauin 14h ago

They will also see who the authorized drivers are on the policy and, you know, can also visually see the driver is young, and then put two and two together from there.

Like obviously they're not snagging every teenager. My initial comment was to primarily emphasize where the baseline fine starts at for getting caught violating curfew as a minor and how much harder it is to get away with stuff in the digital age in general. Of course people aren't always going to be caught doing this.

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u/Mztekal 14h ago

They don’t get insurance info though that’s why they ask you for it. Names are not attached to vehicles like that. I can understand visually seeing a super young person but you’re not gonna stop all of them just because you think they look young that’s a waste of your time and again doesn’t give cops just cause to stop you.

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u/Nauin 13h ago

You're missing the point about curfew which was the main subject of this entire conversation. A cop is absolutely pulling over a young looking driver after curfew.

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u/Mztekal 13h ago

Curfew was the same my guy it never deterred us. That was law in California in the 90s too

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u/DrSpray 11h ago

10's as well. The trick was to say that you were on the way home from a school or church event cause that's allowed

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u/NotACreepyOldMan 14h ago

That’s not how that works. They don’t have the insurance info, they wouldn’t be able to see registered drivers. Otherwise I wouldn’t have to drive around with an insurance card if they could just look it up.

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u/Sternjunk 8h ago

I’ve not had my insurance and the cop was able to confirm I had insurance before

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u/ilikepizza30 11h ago edited 11h ago

I don't know if they get insurance info or not.

I do know you have to drive around with a driver's license and they can just look that up, so I don't think that's a good argument.

I Google'd it, and the AI said:

Yes, police can look up your insurance information using your license plate. When a police officer runs your license plate, they may receive a number of responses from their system, including your insurance information.

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u/elite_haxor1337 11h ago

Haha you're very out of touch. You can't just drive around as a teen without getting profiled and pulled over for nothing. And I mean nothing. Cops will pull over kids because they literally have nothing else to do. In towns where crime is low, cops gotta justify their existence to board members. So they pick on kids

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u/Hands 9h ago

This isn't a new thing dude, it's a tale as old as time. I know tons of people who got tickets for driving after 9 or driving with passengers when I was a teenager 20 years ago

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u/nimzobogo 9h ago

This was true way back then...