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Number of Canadian cannabis users more than doubled in past 30 years

Xinhua,February 22, 2018 Adjust font size:

OTTAWA, Feb.21 (Xinhua) -- The number of Canadian cannabis users aged 15 and older more than doubled from 5.6 percent in 1985 to 12.3 percent in 2015, according to a study released by by Statistics Canada Wednesday.

The study is based on several national surveys including the Canadian Tobacco, Alcohol and Drugs Survey (CTADS), the Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey (CTUMS) and the 1985 Health Promotion Survey.

Each survey asked about past-year cannabis use and had target populations that included youth and adults in every province in the country.

Data collected between 2004 and 2015 suggest that cannabis use decreased among some age groups but increased among others.

Pot use decreased among females between the ages of 15 and 17, as well as all adults between the ages of 18 and 24. But cannabis use increased among those 25 and older during the same time period.

The data from 2015 show that cannabis use was highest among those aged 18 to 24 group ( 28.4 percent, followed by the 15 to 17 age group (18 percent).

The Canadian federal government has committed to legalizing, regulating, and restricting access to non-medical use of cannabis in the summer of 2018. To prepare for this change, Statistics Canada has been adapting the national statistical system to measure the social and economic impacts of legalized cannabis. Enditem

 

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