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. 2020 Oct 5;6(4):e18540. doi: 10.2196/18540

Table 2.

Topics in cannabis-related tweets by state legal category groupings, United States, January 2017-2019.

Topics Theme keywords Proportion of tweets in Themea
US States Recreational and medical use %
(N=224,462)b
US States Medical use only %
(N=821,970)b
US States Illegal to consume %
(N=89,482)b
Overall %
(N=1,135,914)b

1. Fun and recreation Smoke, weed, blunt, fuck, lol people, love, life, day, high 26.25 31.24 33.20 30.21
2. Daily life Weed, smoke, people, make, today, live, pot, start, day, happy 24.07 24.21 23.64 24.00
3. Transactions Weed, buy, money, sell, shop, spend, store, make, deal, [racial slur] 11.52 11.77 13.00 12.13
4. Places of use Weed, smell, car, smoke, room, mom, walk, house, marijuana, straight 11.81 12.31 12.53 12.23
5. Medical use/Cannabis industry Marijuana, cannabis, medical, grow, business, industry, dispensary, company, health, medicine 16.01 9.90 7.31 10.99
6. Legalization Marijuana, legal, legalize, state, cannabis, illegal, police, tax, legalization, arrest 10.34 10.56 10.32 10.44

aThere are no n values supplied for the content analysis as tweets may have multiple topics.

bThe N value corresponds to total cannabis-related tweets.