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Table 1 Prevalence of past 30-day cannabis usea among US adults with and without use of other substancesb, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2017–2018

From: Cannabis-only use in the USA: prevalence, demographics, use patterns, and health indicators

 

No cannabis use (last 30 days)

N = 73,437

Wt% (95% CI)

Cannabis use with other substance use

N = 11,163

Wt% (95% CI)

Cannabis-only use

N = 980

Wt% (95% CI)

Row total

18–25

77.8 (77.2, 78.4)

20.2 (19.7, 20.9)

2.0 (1.8, 2.2)

100%

26–49

87.7 (87.3, 88.2)

11.6 (11.1, 11.9)

0.7 (0.6, 0.9)

100%

50 and older

95.1 (94.7, 95.5)

4.3 (3.8, 4.7)

0.6 (0.5, 0.8)

100%

All adults

89.7 (89.4, 90.0)

9.4 (9.1, 9.7)

0.9 (0.8, 1.0)

100%

  1. aThe National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) survey instrument uses the term “marijuana or hashish.” bOther substances included any past 30-day use of the following: any alcohol, tobacco (cigarettes, cigars, pipes, smokeless tobacco); illicit drugs (cocaine, crack, heroin, hallucinogens, LSD, PCP, ecstasy, ketamine, DMT/AMT/Foxy, Salvia, inhalants, methamphetamine); and pain medications, tranquilizers, stimulants, or sedatives (when use was not directed by a doctor)