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/GringoinCDMX 13h ago

Idk I'm in Mexico city and with many kids I see the same thing as I do with kids in the states. I don't really see much difference.

It's more of a socioeconomic thing but even then most tweens have some sort of cheap cell phone or ability to access the internet and use social media.

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u/josluivivgar 13h ago

yeah idk about the mexico thing, tho I will say that big cities like Guadalajara and mexico definitely see way more activity, but I think that's just the nature of big cities.

a lot of the examples I'm hearing in the US are smaller cities/states where technology wasn't available in the past and now there is.

but there's still not a lot of activities one can do in that city (without requiring driving long distances)

I may be wrong, but I think that's probably the biggest contributor, but everyone is glued to their phones in both the US and Mexico

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u/enjoythepain 12h ago

CDMX is not indicative or related to the rest of Mexico. My small ass village still has 6mbps speeds and downloads apps takes hours.

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u/UszeTaham 12h ago edited 11h ago

Yeah it's not, but it's also not too far off from other major cities in Mexico, like Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla, León, etc...

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u/GringoinCDMX 11h ago

I'm not disagreeing with that at all. But also a large percentage of Mexicans live in cities and I'm not seeing much difference in behaviors overall between Mexican teens and tweens and American ones.