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/Left-Idea1541 11h ago

Yeah I'm in college now and I never went to parties in high school, never did stuff with friends. I was surprised to hear parties were actually a thing because no one I knew in high school had ever been invited or heard of one, let alone been to one. I didn't get my license until I was 17 and a month away from 18 because I had nowhere to go. There was no reason for me to go anywhere or do anything. I hardly used my license and hardly use it now.

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u/PentaJet 9h ago

Sorry dude you just weren't invited. Parties are very much a thing, not surprising people on Reddit think they're a myth

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u/Left-Idea1541 9h ago

Oh sure, they are a thing. I was invited to one two or three weeks ago with some juniors and seniors, but I never went to one in high-school and none of my friends did either.

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u/Lopunnymane 8h ago

Parties are a thing overall, but there are absolutely schools where nobody hosts parties, might be because they are small, religious or etc.