Percentage of Adults Consuming Cannabis Rising

Percentage of Adults Consuming Cannabis Rising

(Darrin Harris Frisby/Drug Policy Alliance)

SAN FRANCISCO, CA Approximately one in seven US adults acknowledge having consumed cannabis within the past year, according todatapublished in theAnnals of Internal Medicine.

A team of investigators from the University of California and Columbia University in New York assessed cannabis use patterns in a nationally representative sample of 16,280 US adults. Overall, 14.6 percent of respondents said that they had used marijuana within the past 12-months. Respondents were most likely to have consumed cannabis via smoking, and use rates were higher among those residing in jurisdictions where adult use is legally regulated. Over80 percentof respondents perceived the plant to possess various therapeutic benefits, such as pain relief or relief from stress and depression.

Separate demographicdatapublished in the journalDrug and Alcohol Dependencereports that self-reported marijuana use by older Americans is also increasing. New York University researchers analyzed use patterns in a cohort of ...

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