Gallup: 17% of Americans Smoke Cannabis; 15% Consume Edibles 

Seventeen percent of Americans said they smoke cannabis, according to a Gallup poll released Monday. The figure ties the previous record high found by the pollster in 2023. 

In 2024, the number of Americans polled by Gallup who said they smoked cannabis fell to 13% but rose to 14% in 2025. 

Another 15% of those polled indicated they consume cannabis edibles, including 17% of women and 12% of men; comparatively, 15% of women and 18% of men said they smoked cannabis.   

The majority of respondents who either smoked or consumed cannabis edibles were 30- to 49-years old (25% and 20%, respectively). Twenty-three percent of 18- to 29-year-olds polled indicated they smoked cannabis, while 19% said they ate cannabis edibles. Among respondents 50- to 64-years old, 10% said they smoked cannabis, while 12% said they consumed cannabis edibles. The lowest level of cannabis smokers and edible consumers were 65-and-older (5% and 7%, respectively). 

Cannabis consumption was more popular among non-college graduates than college graduates, the pollster found, with 20% of the non-college graduate cohort saying the smoke cannabis with 17% consuming edibles, compared to 11% and 12%, respectively, of those that graduated college.  

The poll found Americans about evenly split on the effect of cannabis on most consumers, with 47% saying it has a very (9%) or somewhat (38%) positive effect, and 46% saying it has a very (16%) or somewhat (30%) negative effect. U.S. adults were also split in the two previous polls, with a slight positive lean (53%) in 2022 and a slight negative lean (51%) in 2024.