News » People With High IQs Often Pot Smokers, Study Says

A new study in the United Kingdom found that those tested with high IQs in early childhood were likely to become cannabis or cocaine users in adulthood. Men who scored high (ha!) on the test were 50% more likely to have experimented with illicit drugs in general while women were 50% more likely to have tried marijuana or cocaine.

The study, published in The Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, found that by the age of 30, women who tested into a high IQ had a 15.9% likelihood of trying cannabis (over the population baseline) and men were 35.4% more likely to have toked. Cocaine numbers were similarly split with 3.6% of women and 8.6% of men trying it by age 30.

The research looked at 8,000 Britons (7,904 tested at 5 years, 7,946 at 10) who’d scored high on IQ tests given at age 5 and 10 (standard in UK schools).

The study coincides with similar research showing that these same adults are also more likely to have heavier alcohol use in adult life than the rest of the population.

[source Science Daily]

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