Young Americans Are Using Cannabis and Hallucinogens at Record Rate

[Celerity]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/young-americans-are-using-cannabis-and-hallucinogens-at-record-rate



The current crop of American youngsters are officially the highest ever as researchers found they’re using more weed and hallucinogenic drugs than any other generation since recordkeeping began.

A survey of people age 19 to 30 run by the National Institutes of Health found the record high in data collected between April and October 2021. The number of young adults saying they’d had cannabis in the last year (43 percent), past month (29 percent), or daily (11 percent) has never been higher since the survey started in 1988.

Meanwhile, 8 percent of people asked had used a hallucinogen in the past year. Spikes were recorded in the use of LSD, mescaline, peyote, magic mushrooms, and PCP.

Only MDMA—aka Molly or ecstasy or disco biscuits—saw a drop, from 5 percent in 2020 to 3 percent in 2021.

Read it at NPR

[ck4829]

1. Entitled snobs have gotten out of hand at where I work - I smoked pot, first time in my life

Last October.

[MyMission]

2. I suspect older Americans are also

Using cannabis and/or hallucinogens at a record rate too.

Who put a stop payment on my reality check?!?

[Demsrule86]

6. I have an Ohio medical card for cannabis. I expect many people use it.

[bahboo]

3. beating my generation....60's and 70's....

no way!

[RFCalifornia]

4. Well wouldn't anyone???

((gestures vaguely around))

[BannonsLiver]

5. Was there any mention of current usage of booger sugar by this age group?

[brush]

9. Booger sugar?

[Celerity]

19. Bolivian marching powder

[Celerity]

10. Cocaine use was reported by 5.5% of young adults in 2021 (Figure 33), peaking at 7.3% at ages 25-26

and then declining through age 30 (Table 26). The prevalence declined significantly from 2020 (6.8%) to 2021 (5.5%), reversing the longer-term trend of increasing over the past 10 years, during which the all-time low was 3.8% in 2013 (Figure 33).

Cocaine use was reported by 2.5% of adults ages 35 to 50 in 2021 (Figure 33), with no significant changes in the past 10 years. By age stratum, there was a range of 4.2% at age 35 descending to 0.8% at age 60 (Table 26).

Cocaine use in the past 12 months was higher among college than noncollege young adults (3.9% vs. 3.3%) in 2021 (Table 27).








http://monitoringthefuture.org/pubs/monographs/mtfpanelreport2022

[ZonkerHarris]

16. Looked at the numbers from the 80s and said to myself. Thats about right

[Celerity]

22. the Raygun years were powderised

[MiniMe]

7. I myself like the edibles

I used to smoke it, but I've quit smoking tobacco and I don't want to smoke anything at this point. Don't want to be tempted to go back to smoking tobacco.

[Runningdawg]

8. 100%for natural sources. LSD,PCP,DMT, anything cooked up from a YouTube recipe NO

Glad I had the opportunity to do chemicals before it all went to hell.

[jmowreader]

11. And how much of that...

Is because state-licensed cannabis stores exist now?

There are four good reasons besides piss testing not to smoke illegal weed.

It might be crap that won’t get a fly high.
It could be the same crap with other drugs mixed in, like PCP.
The dealer could be a cop who’ll bust your ass the second you reach for your money.
Or the dealer could be a mugger who’ll pull a gun on you and take your money, phone and car.

Go to a state-licensed weed store and all that goes away. You know it’s pure weed. You know the levels of the two most interesting cannabinoids, THC and CBD, in the bag you’re buying because a certified analysis has been done on it. The only cop in the place is the guy behind you who wants an eighth for himself. And the dealer is a really cute young lady in a pot leaf-printed dress whose hair is thirteen different colors.

It’s safe to indulge now, so why the hell wouldn’t you?

[Mosby]

21. The guy who owns curaleaf is a Russian oligarch.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/19/curaleaf-boris-jordan-russia

Buy yeah, your dealer may have laced your weed with pcp, lol. I wish.

[Iwasthere]

12. I am 66 and I micro dose mushrooms

I cannot smoke or eat edibles, I get way too high on pot. I used smoke it when I was younger. Back when you could buy a four finger bag for ten bucks, and I'd spend an hour removing stems and seeds. A different product back then. Pot today is wicked.

[edbermac]

13. That's so sixties.

Been there, done that.

[SWBTATTReg]

14. I see it more openly used (pot, via vapor pens and such). Especially since it's legal in the state

of Illinois (next door to me) and in MO, it's medically legal.

That's okay considering how many still abuse drinking alcohol. My sister, brother, and Mom all died from alcoholism, so go ahead and tell me about the evils of smoking pot vs. drinking. To me, drinking is evil, for it seems to entail more, more, and more, till it never stops. That's why I admire those that stop this evil in its tracks, before it gains a toehold in their lives. Don't!

[Bluesaph]

15. Good!

High people are peaceful!

Decriminalize all drugs and educate with the tax revenue generated.

Edibles are the best.

[Mosby]

17. They've been told pot is medicine.

So I don't think this at all unexpected.

[Initech]

18. Yeah if I had to put up with parents who watch Fox 24 hours a day, I would too.

[Emile]

20. Highest recorded bullshit! When it was illegal no

one was going around and telling unknown people that yes they use cannabis.

[hunter]

23. Seems less than it was when I was that age. Less sex too.

Major difference now is that it's not so hidden.

Kids don't have to worry so much about the cops or other community enforcers these days.

This study starts in 1988, I was a few years into responsible adulthood by then.

[sanatanadharma]

24. Considering that the recent past has not been a high-times repast ...

... perhaps we are past indulging the lovers of hate and that which is needed is a new summer of love.

Power to the under 30!

[Act_of_Reparation]

25. Oh good. Another moral panic.

I was afraid we weren't going to get one this week.