The AP (5/22, Johnson ) reports, “Millions of people in the U.S. report using marijuana daily or nearly every day, according to an analysis of national survey data, and those people now outnumber those who say they are daily or nearly-daily drinkers of alcohol.” Although “alcohol is still more widely used…2022 was the first time this intensive level of marijuana use overtook daily and near-daily drinking, said the study’s author, Jonathan Caulkins, a cannabis policy researcher at Carnegie Mellon University.” Caulkins said, “A good 40% of current cannabis users are using it daily or near daily, a pattern that is more associated with tobacco use than typical alcohol use.” These findings were published in Addiction.
The Hill (5/22, Nazzaro) reports, “About 17.7 million people in 2022 recorded daily or nearly daily use of marijuana, compared to the 14.7 million who reported the same habits for alcohol, marking the first time in the past 30 years that daily marijuana use exceeded alcohol use, according to an analysis published Wednesday that looks at data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health.” Additionally, “from 1992 to 2022, there was a 15-fold increase in the rate of daily or near daily use marijuana use, the analysis found.”
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— “Daily marijuana use outpaces daily drinking in the US, a new study says,”Carla K. Johnson, AP, May 22, 2024