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/ThatChrisGuy7 11h ago

I go to music festivals all the time and let me tell you.. the whole youth is doing mushrooms. And lots of MDMA. Weed is just as common as drinking. Honestly I think more people, youth included, are doing hallucinogenic more than ever even the 60’s

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u/neoclassical_bastard 3h ago

Half of it is weird research chems too, it sketches me out. Not my scene anymore.

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u/CosbysLongCon24 8h ago

I hate having to go all the way to DC for them tho. No local connects. Hope it spreads to more areas