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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2021 Oct 29;229(Pt B):109159. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.109159

Table 1.

Sample characteristics (N=4,064)

n %
Sociodemographic
Age
 18–20 1,533 37.7
 21–29 1,240 30.5
 30–44 655 16.1
 45–64 549 13.5
 65+ 87 2.1
Gender
 Male 2,116 52.1
 Female 1,874 46.1
 Other 74 1.8
Race/ethnicity
 White 3,201 78.8
 Black 127 3.1
 Hispanic 311 7.7
 Other 425 10.5
Employment
 Any 1,860 45.8
 None 2,204 54.2
Education
 High school or less 1,494 36.8
 More than high school 2,570 63.2
Advertising/recruitment strategy
 Focused on non-frequent usersa 1,032 25.4
 Focused on frequent usersb 3,032 74.6
State cannabis law status
 Recreational cannabis law (RCL)c 1,077 26.5
 Medical cannabis law (MCL-only)d 1,669 41.1
 No cannabis law (no-CL) 1,318 32.4
a

Generic advertisement to Facebook accounts of less-frequent cannabis users that incentivized survey completion with an online raffle for a $10 Amazon gift code.

b

Cannabis-specific advertisements directed to Facebook accounts of frequent cannabis users

c

Respondent was living in a state with a recreational cannabis law enacted by 2017: Alaska, California, Colorado, DC, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, Washington. All these states also had an MCL enacted by 2017.

d

Respondent was living in a state with a medical cannabis law enacted by 2017: Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia