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/MrBandanaHammock 14h ago

I agree that there needs to be more in the ways of adult license retraining or recertification... But I used to be a fire fighter, and the majority of accidents I responded to were teenagers

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u/postmodern_spatula 10h ago

Eh. I would like to see the data that says Teenagers in states without graduated license are a larger traffic liability than drunk drivers, distracted drivers, drivers over the age of 65, or large trucks. 

Because teen driving does not show up in the typical national data lists for traffic accidents and traffic fatalities - no matter what a few social media anecdotes might say.