Who Is Smoking Weed In America These Days? Twice As Many As A Decade Ago, Finds Latest Gallup Poll
For the past two years, more U.S. adults have reported smoking cannabis rather than cigarettes. In 2023, a record 17% of Americans said they smoked marijuana while 50% said they have “used” cannabis, according to Gallup’s annual “Consumption Habits” latest survey of February 5.
These numbers outweigh the 12% of Americans who said they had smoked cigarettes “in the past week.”
“Americans’ reported marijuana smoking has more than doubled since 2013, when Gallup first added the question in its annual Consumption Habits survey,” according to the poll. “That year, 7 percent said they did.”
Conversely, the cigarette smoking rate continued to fall during that same period, down from 19% of Americans in 2013.
Young Adults Ditching Tobacco For Cannabis
Meanwhile, young people are more than five times more likely to consume cannabis rather than tobacco, according …