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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Neuroimmune Pharmacol. 2018 Oct 3;13(4):479–487. doi: 10.1007/s11481-018-9813-6

Table 2.

Cannabis and other substance use

Current use

Abstinent (n=63) Low use (n=24) Heavy use (n=24) Total (N=111)
Age at first cannabis use, Mean(SD)* 13.8 (3.3) 16.3 (4.3) 15.3 (2.7) 14.6 (3.6)
Age at the heaviest cannabis use, Mean(SD) 31.1 (11.1) 30.5 (9.0) 29.4 (11.7) 31.1 (11.4)
Cannabis use during the heaviest use (%)
    Days per week**
        Less than one day a week 0.0 8.3 0.0 1.8
        One day a week 0.0 4.2 0.0 0.9
        2–3 days a week 3.2 12.5 0.0 4.4
        4–5 days a week 12.7 29.2 16.7 16.8
        More than 5 days a week 84.1 45.8 83.3 76.1
    Times per day
        Once a day 1.61 4.2 0.0 1.8
        2–3 times a day 12.9 33.3 8.3 17.0
        4–5 times a day 27.4 25.0 25.0 26.8
        6–7 times a day 11.3 12.5 33.3 16.1
        More than 7 times a day 46.8 25.0 33.3 38.4
Reduction from heaviest to current use (%) 100 79.2 25.0 79.3
Marijuana Motives Questionnaire (MMQ), Mean (SD)
    Coping 3.3 (1.2) 3.0 (1.2) 3.7 (1.1) 3.3 ( 1.2)
    Social 3.1 (1.2) 2.9 (1.2) 3.1 (1.3) 3.1 (1.2)
    Enhancement* 4.0 (1.0) 3.3 (1.1) 3.6 (0.8) 3.8 (1.0)
    Conformity 1.8 (1.0) 1.8 (1.0) 1.5 (0.7) 1.7 (1.0)
    Expansion 2.7 (1.4) 2.6 (1.2) 3.2 (1.3) 2.8 (1.3)
Use in the past 30 days (%)
    Tobacco 55.6 45.8 50.0 51.3
    Alcohol** 3.2 41.7 54.2 22.1
    Other drug use** 3.2 16.7 25.0 10.6

Group comparison based on Chi-square test for categorical variables or ANOVA test for continuous variables

*

P<0.05,

**

P<0.01