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New research based on data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, published Wednesday in the journal Addiction, compares Americans' use of cannabis and alcohol over the past 40 years.
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction has an interactive cannabis use map of Europe. One can select by recall period: last month, last year, or lifetime. Also by age: young adults (15–34), or adults (15–64
Story at a glance More U.S. adults simultaneously used cannabis and alcohol following state-level legalizations of recreational marijuana, according to new data collected between 2008 and 2019.
World map of annual cannabis prevalence. This is a list of the annual prevalence of cannabis use by country (including some territories) as a percentage of the population. The indicator is an "annual prevalence" rate which is the percentage of the youth and adult population who have consumed cannabis at least once in the past survey year.
[51] Ratios of the harms of illicit opiates to licit alcohol and tobacco in Australia are similar, with 2 deaths per hundred opiate users per annum versus 0.22 deaths per hundred for alcohol (9 times less) per year and 0.3 for tobacco (7 times less). [1] The DEA has said: Marijuana is far more powerful than it used to be.
👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM!Beer and wine are taking a back seat as more and more people are using marijuana gummies instead of alcohol when they’re looking for a buzz or hanging out with friends.
Alcohol (from Arabic al-kuḥl 'the kohl'), [11] sometimes referred to by the chemical name ethanol, is the second most consumed psychoactive drug globally behind caffeine, [12] and alcohol use disorders are the most prevalent of all substance use disorders worldwide. [13]
The survey found that in 2019, 11% of people over 14 years old smoke daily; that 9.9% of those who drink alcohol, which equates to 7.5% of the total population age 14 or older, may qualify as alcohol dependent; that 17.5% of the 2.4 million people who used cannabis in the last year may have hazardous use or a dependence problem; and that 63.5% ...