Daily Cannabis Consumption Outpaces Daily Alcohol Use In The US For The First Time, New Study Shows
For the first time ever, the number of Americans who consume cannabis on a nearly daily basis has surpassed the number of people who drink that often, a shift some 40 years in the making as recreational marijuana use become more mainstream and legal in some form in nearly half of U.S. states.
A new study published Wednesday in the journal Society for the Study of Addiction explores how marijuana consumption habits have changed in recent decades. One surprising piece of data noted that since 1992, the per capita rate of daily cannabis consumption in the country has increased nearly 15 times over.
“Long-term trends in cannabis use in the United States parallel corresponding changes in cannabis policy, with declines …