Try not to freak: When it comes to smoking weed, the kids are actually doing alright. According to an unprecedented Washington University School of Medicine analysis of more than a decade's worth of survey data, the rate of adolescents and teens across the nation who have toked in the past 12 months has dropped significantly — by ten percent, in fact — since 2002.
"It’s the first time anyone has ever put together all the data," says Dr. Richard Grucza, a Washington University researcher and lead author of the study, which is published in the June issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Along with a team of researchers, Grucza dug into a trove of data collected by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health between 2002 and 2013.…