Table 1.
Recreational cannabis use | Private cannabis use | Public cannabis use | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
% Total n=619 | % Legal n=398 | % Minor n=144 | % Crime n=27 | % DK n=50 | p | % Support n=484 | % Not Sure n=74 | % Oppose n=27 | p | % Support n=182 | % Not Sure n=197 | % Oppose n=239 | p | |
Perceived harm of cannabis | <0.01 | <0.01 | <0.01 | |||||||||||
Low | 73.2 | 86.2 | 58.2 | 11.5 | 40.0 | 80.6 | 36.9 | 54.2 | 83.4 | 78.0 | 61.6 | |||
High | 26.8 | 13.8 | 41.8 | 88.5 | 60.0 | 19.4 | 63.1 | 45.8 | 16.6 | 22.0 | 38.4 | |||
Cannabis use | <0.01 | <0.01 | <0.01 | |||||||||||
Non-current | 49.7 | 39.7 | 57.6 | 92.3 | 84.0 | 44.2 | 75.7 | 62.3 | 41.2 | 41.1 | 63.4 | |||
Current | 50.3 | 60.3 | 42.4 | 7.7 | 16.0 | 55.8 | 24.3 | 37.7 | 58.8 | 58.9 | 36.6 | |||
Alcohol use | 0.22 | 0.36 | 0.48 | |||||||||||
Non-current | 15.6 | 14.4 | 15.1 | 29.4 | 22.2 | 14.6 | 19.3 | 20.8 | 14.8 | 13.8 | 18.0 | |||
Current | 84.4 | 85.6 | 84.9 | 70.6 | 77.8 | 85.4 | 80.7 | 79.2 | 85.2 | 86.2 | 82.0 | |||
Cigarette use | 0.03 | 0.20 | 0.04 | |||||||||||
Non-current | 80.6 | 77.1 | 86.1 | 85.2 | 90.0 | 79.1 | 86.5 | 85.5 | 77.5 | 77.7 | 85.8 | |||
Current | 19.4 | 22.9 | 13.9 | 14.8 | 10.0 | 20.9 | 13.5 | 14.5 | 22.5 | 22.3 | 14.2 | |||
Age | 0.35 | 0.23 | 0.21 | |||||||||||
18 | 51.9 | 53.3 | 47.9 | 40.7 | 58.0 | 53.3 | 50.0 | 41.9 | 57.1 | 48.2 | 51.0 | |||
19 or older | 48.1 | 46.7 | 52.1 | 59.3 | 42.0 | 46.7 | 50.0 | 58.1 | 42.9 | 51.8 | 49.0 | |||
Gender | 0.04 | 0.28 | 0.35 | |||||||||||
Male | 26.5 | 29.6 | 17.4 | 29.6 | 26.0 | 27.6 | 18.9 | 25.8 | 28.7 | 28.1 | 23.1 | |||
Female | 73.5 | 70.4 | 82.6 | 70.4 | 74.0 | 72.4 | 81.1 | 74.2 | 71.3 | 71.9 | 76.9 | |||
Race/ethnicity | 0.01 | <0.01 | 0.78 | |||||||||||
White | 45.2 | 49.1 | 42.3 | 37.1 | 28.0 | 48.4 | 27.0 | 42.0 | 44.2 | 46.7 | 45.2 | |||
Black | 25.7 | 25.0 | 25.0 | 33.3 | 28.0 | 25.1 | 27.0 | 29.0 | 29.3 | 23.4 | 25.1 | |||
Asian | 12.9 | 9.8 | 15.3 | 14.8 | 30.0 | 10.8 | 25.7 | 14.5 | 9.9 | 13.7 | 14.2 | |||
Hispanic/Other | 16.2 | 16.1 | 17.4 | 14.8 | 14.0 | 15.7 | 20.3 | 14.5 | 16.6 | 16.2 | 15.5 | |||
Grades | 0.33 | 0.52 | 0.02 | |||||||||||
Mostly A’s | 31.4 | 31.1 | 30.1 | 48.0 | 28.6 | 30.3 | 33.3 | 37.3 | 24.7 | 30.4 | 37.6 | |||
Mostly B’s or lower | 68.6 | 68.9 | 69.9 | 52.0 | 71.4 | 69.7 | 66.7 | 62.7 | 75.3 | 69.6 | 62.4 |
Note: DK=don’t know; bolded p indicate statistical significance less than 0.05 using Pearson’s Chi-square test.