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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2015 Feb 17;149:232–244. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2015.02.009

Table 4b.

Past year daily cannabis use, NSDUHa 2002–2012

n 2002
wt% (SE)
2003
wt% (SE)
2004
wt% (SE)
2005
wt% (SE)
2006
wt% (SE)
2007
wt% (SE)
2008
wt% (SE)
2009
wt% (SE)
2010
wt% (SE)
2011
wt% (SE)
2012
wt% (SE)
Total 614,579 1.3 (0.1) 1.3 (0.1) 1.4 (0.1) 1.3 (0.1) 1.3 (0.1) 1.4 (0.1) 1.6 (0.1) 1.6 (0.1) 1.8 (0.1) 1.9 (0.1) 2.1 (0.1)
12–17 199,750 1.4 (0.1) 1.0 (0.1) 1.3 (0.1) 1.0 (0.1) 1.2 (0.1) 1.0 (0.1) 1.1 (0.1) 1.2 (0.1) 1.4 (0.1) 1.2 (0.1) 1.1 (0.1)
18–25 204,570 4.4 (0.2) 4.3 (0.2) 4.5 (0.2) 4.7 (0.2) 4.5 (0.2) 4.4 (0.2) 5.1 (0.2) 5.0 (0.2) 5.6 (0.20 5.4 (0.2) 6.3 (0.2)
26–49 149,457 1.2 (0.1) 1.3 (0.1) 1.3 (0.1) 1.1 (0.1) 1.2 (0.1) 1.5 (0.1) 1.7 (0.1) 1.7 (0.2) 1.9 (0.2) 2.1 (0.1) 2.2 (0.2)
50+ 60,802 0.2 (0.1) 0.2 (0.1) 0.4 (0.1) 0.3 (0.1) 0.1 (0.1) 0.3 (0.1) 0.4 (0.1) 0.4 (0.1) 0.5 (0.10 0.7 (0.1) 0.8 (0.1)
White 391,745 1.4 (0.08) 1.4 (0.08) 1.5 (0.08) 1.3 (0.07) 1.3 (0.07) 1.5 (0.09) 1.7 (0.07) 1.7 (0.1) 1.8 (0.1) 2.0 (0.1) 2.1 (0.1)
12–17 121,265 1.6 (0.1) 1.2 (0.1) 1.4 (0.1) 1.1 (0.1) 1.3 (0.1) 1.3 (0.2) 1.4 (0.1) 1.3 (0.1) 1.5 (0.1) 1.3 (0.2) 1.3 (0.1)
18–25 125,549 5.1 (0.3) 5.0 (0.3) 5.0 (0.3) 5.3 (0.3) 5.3 (0.3) 4.8 (0.2) 5.8 (0.3) 5.8 (0.3) 6.2 (0.3) 6.0 (0.3) 6.9 (0.2)
26–49 97,860 1.4 (0.1) 1.4 (0.2) 1.6 (0.1) 1.1 (0.1) 1.4 (0.2) 1.6 (0.2) 1.9 (0.2) 1.9 (0.2) 2.1 (0.2) 2.3 (0.2) 2.4 (0.2)
50+ 47,071 0.3 (0.1) 0.2 (0.08) 0.5 (0.1) 0.3 (0.1) 0.1 (0.05) 0.4 (0.08) 0.3 (0.08) 0.4 (0.1) 0.6 (0.2) 0.8 (0.1) 0.9 (0.2)
Black 77,737 1.5 (0.2) 1.7 (0.2) 1.4 (0.2) 2.1 (0.3) 1.5 (0.2) 2.0 (0.2) 2.2 (0.3) 2.0 (0.2) 2.4 (0.4) 2.1 (0.2) 2.5 (0.3)
12–17 27,474 0.9 (0.2) 0.7 (1.2) 1.2 (0.3) 1.0 (0.3) 1.0 (0.2) 0.6 (0.2) 0.6 (0.2) 1.0 (0.3) 1.2 (0.3) 1.0 (0.3) 0.8 (0.2)
18–25 27,045 3.8 (0.3) 3.9 (0.5) 4.2 (0.6) 5.2 (0.7) 3.7 (0.5) 6.1 (0.7) 4.8 (0.5) 5.9 (0.6) 5.1 (0.5) 5.8 (0.5) 7.4 (0.7)
26–49 17,434 1.8 (0.4) 2.0 (0.5) 1.3 (0.4) 2.1 (0.5) 1.9 (1.4) 2.0 (0.4) 1.8 (0.3) 2.2 (0.4) 3.4 (0.8) 2.0 (0.4) 3.0 (0.6)
50+ 5,784 0 (0) 0.3 (0.30 0 (0) 1.0 (0.8) 0.1 (0.01) 0.3 (0.3) 1.9 (1.1) 0.3 (0.3) 0.2 (0.1) 0.7 (0.3) 0.3 (0.2)
Hispanic 94,578 0.9 (0.1) 0.9 (0.1) 1.0 (0.1) 1.1 (0.1) 1.0 (0.1) 0.9 (0.2) 1.1 (0.2) 1.2 (0.1) 1.6 (0.2) 1.8 (0.2) 1.7 (0.2)
12–17 33,335 1.2 (0.3) 0.8 (0.2) 1.2 (0.3) 1.0 (0.3) 1.0 (0.2) 0.5 (0.1) 0.8 (0.2) 1.1 (0.2) 1.7 (0.3) 1.0 (0.2) 0.8 (0.2)
18–25 34,452 2.7 (0.3) 2.8 (0.4) 3.3 (0.5) 2.8 (0.4) 3.1 (0.5) 2.4 (0.4) 3.7 (0.6) 2.5 (0.3) 4.8 (0.7) 4.6 (0.6) 4.9 (0.6)
26–49 22,248 0.5 (0.20 0.4 (0.2) 0.4 (0.2) 0.8 (0.3) 0.4 (0.1) 0.8 (0.3) 0.8 (0.3) 1.2 (0.3) 0.9 (0.2) 1.4 (0.3) 1.2 (0.3)
50+ 4,543 0 (0) 0.1 (0.03) 0 (0) 0.4 (0.4) 0.3 (0.2) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0.5 (0.4) 0.9 (0.7) 0.6 (0.4)
Other 50,519 0.8 (0.2) 0.9 (0.2) 0.9 (0.1) 0.6 (0.1) 0.6 (0.1) 0.9 (0.2) 1.0 (0.1) 1.1 (0.1) 1.0 (0.2) 1.3 (0.2) 1.5 (0.2)
12–17 17,676 1.4 (0.5) 0.8 (0.2) 0.9 (0.3) 0.4 (0.1) 1.1 (0.4) 0.3 (0.1) 1.0 (0.3) 0.5 (0.2) 0.4 (0.09) 1.0 (0.3) 0.8 (0.2)
18–25 17,524 2.6 (0.6) 2.7 (0.5) 3.0 (0.7) 2.5 (0.4) 2.4 (0.6) 3.2 (0.6) 2.9 (0.2) 3.4 (0.5) 2.5 (0.5) 3.9 (0.9) 3.0 (0.2)
26–49 11,915 0.4 (0.2) 0.6 (0.3) 0.7 (0.2) 0.4 (0.2) 0.4 (0.1) 0.8 (0.3) 1.0 (0.2) 0.9 (0.3) 0.8 (0.3) 1.8 (0.5) 1.6 (0.3)
50+ 3,404 0 (0) 0.5 (0.5) 0 (0) 0.1 (0.09) 0 (0) 0.1 (0.02) 0.2 (0.2) 0.4 (0.3) 0.1 (0.1) 0.1 (0.03) 0.4 (0.3)

Note: Bolded text indicates statistically significant differences across 11 years at the Bonferroni-corrected p<0.002 level.

a

NSDUH = National Survey on Drug Use and Health

b

wt% = weighted percentage

c

SE = standard error