Table 7 Age variation and cannabis use during the pandemic
From: The COVID-19 pandemic and cannabis use in Canada―a scoping review
Consumption pattern | Study | Key findings |
|---|---|---|
Age | (Dumas et al. 2020) | ¬ The percentage of cannabis using adolescents decreased for girls only (3% decrease, from 16.4 to 13.4%, p < .01); however, the frequency of cannabis use (average number of cannabis using days) increased significantly from pre-COVID to post-COVID (F (1, 1029) = 8.04, p = .01). |
(Imtiaz et al. 2021) | ¬ Cannabis use in the overall population remained stable during the early months of May and June 2020; however, they found that during the same time cannabis use among those who used cannabis increased by half (55.65% at wave 1, 51.94% at wave 2, and 47.58% at wave 3) compared to before the pandemic (p > .05 for both chi-square and Cochran-Armitage tests). | |
(Leatherdale et al. 2021) | ¬ 27.3% (n = 241) of adolescents who reported past-year cannabis use reported that their use has increased because of COVID-19 ¬ 23.2% (n = 205) reported their cannabis use had decreased because of COVID-19. ¬ 27.4% (n = 242) of respondents reporting past-year cannabis use, reported using cannabis to cope with changes related to COVID-19. | |
(Statistics 2021) | ¬ Among respondents who had previously consumed cannabis, 43% of those aged 15 to 29, 20% of respondents aged 50 to 64, and 22% of those aged 65 or older reported increasing cannabis consumption during the pandemic |