A new federal survey has received significant media attention this week for showing the rapid rise in the use of psychedelics among young adults, which some officials say may be attributable to the increased media attention to the therapeutic potential of the substances. But the trend seems to be limited to adults, with other recent studies and surveys revealing that teen use of hallucinogens is down in recent years.
Taken together, the federally backed Monitoring the Future survey and a separate study published last week in the journal Addiction reveal similar trends: Psychedelics have been steadily gaining popularity among adults, while underage people are generally losing interest in hallucinogens like psilocybin.
It’s a research topic that has generated increased attention in the scientific community as more jurisdictions have moved to decriminalize entheogenic plants and fungi, or provide therapeutic access to the substances given evidence that they could effectively treat symptoms of mental health conditions like severe depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
And while prohibitionists have increasingly turned their attention to the psychedelics reform movement, peddling the same concerns about increased underage use that they claimed would happen as more states have moved to legalize marijuana, the recent data is again
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