Table 1.
Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Group 4 | ||
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Non-Users | Illicit Users | Medical Users | Diverted Medical Marijuana Users | ||
No past year marijuana use (n = 2817; 64.1%)a | Past year marijuana use that was not from a legal or medial source (n = 1263; 28.8%)a | Past year marijuana use from their own prescription (n = 48; 1.1%)a | Past year marijuana use from someone else's prescription (n = 266; 6.1%)a | ||
Demographics (% )a | % | % | % | % | |
Sex | <.001 | ||||
Male (45.3) | 43.1 | 49.2 | 66.7 | 57.7 | |
Female (46.8) | 52.2 | 42.7 | 12.5 | 31.1 | |
Missing Response (7.9) | 4.7 | 8.1 | 20.8 | 11.2 | |
Race | <.001 | ||||
White (56.5) | 58.4 | 59.6 | 34.0 | 49.6 | |
Black (10.1) | 11.4 | 8.3 | 10.6 | 3.8 | |
Hispanic (13.8) | 14.1 | 12.3 | 21.3 | 20.3 | |
Other Race/Missingc(19.6) | 16.1 | 19.8 | 34.0 | 26.3 | |
Urbanicity | <.001 | ||||
Large MSA/Urban (31.2) | 29.5 | 31.4 | 18.8 | 47.4 | |
Other MSA/Suburban (48.7) | 48.3 | 49.6 | 66.7 | 44.7 | |
Non-MSA/Rural (20.1) | 22.2 | 19.0 | 14.6 | 7.9 | |
U.S. Region | <.001 | ||||
North East (17.0) | 16.5 | 21.1 | 8.5 | 5.2 | |
North central (25.0) | 26.6 | 24.4 | 12.8 | 16.5 | |
South (33.9) | 35.5 | 33.5 | 19.1 | 13.9 | |
West (24.1) | 21.4 | 21.1 | 59.6 | 64.4 |
Note. Due to missing responses on past year marijuana use questions, 170 respondents (unweighted)/185 respondents (weighted) were removed from the analysis.
Weighted estimates are provided.
χ2 test of the overall association between different types of marijuana users and each demographic.
The public use MTF data censors respondents race to only identify White, Black, and Hispanic respondents. Respondents racial identities who are 'Other Race' are censored due to issues of confidentiality.