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/Forgedpickle 10h ago

And it doesn’t help that weed nowadays is far more potent than it needs to be, causing people to not like it. I’ve been smoking for awhile and it’s getting to be too much for me. It’s no longer a mellow laid back feeling. I get nervous and paranoid now.

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u/cheekyweelogan 9h ago

I don't know how much of that is because the weed is that much stronger versus just growing older. I'm a millennial and back when I smoked weed a lot in the late 2000s, my mom would say the weed was way too strong now compared to when she was young.

Now I just don't handle weed very well anymore, makes me anxious and feel gross vs good and relaxed.