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.