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Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts

(arstechnica.com)
349 points pseudolus | 2 comments | 17 Dec 24 23:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.417s | source
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Izkata ◴[20 Dec 24 19:12 UTC] No.42473930[source]▶
> But, according to data released Tuesday, the number of eighth, 10th, and 12th graders who collectively abstained from the use of alcohol, marijuana, or nicotine hit a new high this year. Use of illicit drugs also fell on the whole and use of non-heroin narcotics (Vicodin, OxyContin, Percocet) hit an all-time low.

From an unexpected conversation with some younger people not long ago (though not this young), they may have just switched to LSD.

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carlosjobim ◴[20 Dec 24 19:19 UTC] No.42474008[source]▶
You don't use LSD habitually. If they switched to LSD, then that's very interesting.
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codr7 ◴[20 Dec 24 19:22 UTC] No.42474041[source]▶
Some do, and that's fine too.
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1. kamikazeturtles ◴[20 Dec 24 19:30 UTC] No.42474136[source]▶
“If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.” ― Alan Watts
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2. codr7 ◴[22 Dec 24 01:06 UTC] No.42483656[source]▶
Even Alan Watts wasn't right about everything.

This is fine as far as his personal preferences go; as for everyone else, none of his business.