54% of Canadians aged 18 to 44 say they ever smoked, tried pot. About 12 per cent of Canadians age 15 or older said they used marijuana in a year, according to Statistics Canada.
Wednesday’s issue of the agency’s Health Reports looks at marijuana use in 2012 compared with a decade earlier.
Among those aged 18 to 24, 33 per cent said they’d “used or tried” marijuana in the past year — the highest prevalence by age group and the group that tended to use it more frequently. About eight per cent of 18- to 24-year-olds said they used marijuana at least once a week and nearly five per cent said they smoked or used daily.
Marijuana is “one of the most common illicit drugs used in Canada. Significant proportions of the population report having used marijuana in the past year,” said report author Michelle Rotermann, a senior researcher with Statistics Canada in Ottawa.
“When you extend it to lifetime, you get 43 per cent of the population.”
CBC News – Apr 15, 2015.
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