If you’re in your 20s and beating yourself up over all the weed and adderall you consumed last weekend, there’s some good news for you and all your soggy but functional brain cells. It turns out that using recreational drugs might not significantly jeopardize your future life prospects — as long as you stop doing them by the time you’re 30, according to a new study.
The research, which was published in the peer reviewed journal Addiction Research & Theory, surveyed 2,350 Australians about their cannabis and amphetamine use when they were 21 years old. The same people were surveyed again nine years later and it turns out that those who had broken their drug habits by 30 were just as financially and professionally successful as their peers who had never touched the drugs, according to self-reported data.
