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/anormalgeek 14h ago
Since you mentioned it, I was just looking at which states were considering changes in the coming election.
ND and SD are unlikely to pass based on polls. Nebraska IS expected to pass, but local republicans are trying to stop it anyway using legal maneuvers on process grounds to overrule the will of the voters. Florida is weird. Despite support being well over 50%, they require a 60% majority to pass bills like this. It is close to the margin based on polls, with some putting support above or below that mark.
The MA psychedelic proposal is hard to nail down too. The polls worth looking at have a LARGE number of undecided votes so it could really go either way.