Smart Kids Are More Likely To Experiment With Pot And Alcohol

How’s this for peer pressure? Not only do the cool kids smoke pot, but it turns out the smart kids do, too. 

We joke, of course. But a new study suggests that teens with high scores on academic exams were almost twice as likely as low-scoring peers to use cannabis persistently at ages 18 to 20. Smarter kids also were less likely than low scorers to smoke cigarettes, and more likely to drink.