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