Which Teens Are Most Likely to Smoke Pot? The Smart Ones, Study Finds

[bananas]

Source: Time

High-achieving teenagers are more likely to drink alcohol and use cannabis than their less school-smart peers, a new study of British adolescents suggests.

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"Our finding that adolescents with high academic ability are less likely to smoke (cigarettes) but more likely to drink alcohol regularly and use cannabis is broadly consistent with the evidence base on adults," the study's authors said in a statement. They added that the fact that alcohol and cannabis use among high-achieving pupils persisted into early adulthood is evidence against the hypothesis that high academic ability is associated with temporary experimentation with substance use.

The study was published in the BMJ.

Read more: http://time.com/4678433/brainy-teens-smoke-tobacco-pot-study/

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BMJ study at http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/2/e012989
(The article had a bad link)

[TexasTowelie]

1. No wonder I'm a genius!

[bananas]

2. Full press release at Eurekalert

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-02/b-btm022017.php

PUBLIC RELEASE: 22-FEB-2017

Brainy teens may be less likely to smoke, but more likely to drink and use cannabis

Patterns persist into adulthood, refuting notion that it's 'just a phase,' suggest researchers

Brainy teens may be less likely to smoke, but more likely to drink alcohol and use cannabis, than their less academically gifted peers, suggests research published in the online journal BMJ Open.

These patterns persist into adulthood, and would seem to refute the notion that academic prowess is associated with a greater tendency to 'experiment' for a brief period, suggest the researchers.

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Research: Childhood academic ability in relation to cigarette, alcohol and cannabis use from adolescence into early adulthood: Longitudinal Survey of Young People in England (LSYPE) http://bmjopen.bmj.com/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012989

[LS_Editor]

3. Go me.

[hibbing]

4. I guess I was an outlier n/t

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

5. A lot of high achieving teens also have a lot of money

nt

[MrScorpio]

6. I wasn't all that high achieving in school, which is why I never drank and never did drugs.

I was having a ball in school. Tennis and swimming classes. Film studies and Student Government. Best time of my life, especially my junior and senior years.

Fuck college.

I joined the Air Force later anyway.

[olddad56]

7. I have a high achieving, very bright son ..

who is on track to graduate early with honors and a degree in math from one of the top academic schools in the nation, and he is using pot and alcohol to excess. It is the only thing that can derail him. Very depressing situation for me. he is 1 and 1/2 semesters away from graduating in 3 and 1/2 years. Then what.