{"id":17465,"date":"2024-06-09T17:36:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T16:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=17465"},"modified":"2024-10-05T14:58:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T13:58:52","slug":"daily-cannabis-use-surpasses-daily-alcohol-use-for-first-time-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2024\/06\/daily-cannabis-use-surpasses-daily-alcohol-use-for-first-time-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily cannabis use surpasses daily alcohol use for first time, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"caas-header\">\n<div class=\"caas-logo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"caas-logo\">Travis Schlepp\u00a0 \u00a0KTLA TV station, Los Angeles<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"caas-content-byline-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"caas-attr\">\n<div class=\"caas-attr-meta\">\n<div class=\"caas-attr-time-style\"><time class=\"\" datetime=\"2024-05-24T21:19:54.000Z\">May 24, 2024<\/time><span class=\"caas-attr-meta-separator\">\u00b7<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"caas-attr-time-style\">For the first time in history, marijuana has surpassed alcohol in daily use amongst Americans, according to a new study<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"caas-body\">\n<p>Research published earlier this week in the monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal \u201c<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/add.16519\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:Addiction;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-rapid_p=\"10\" data-v9y=\"1\">Addiction<\/a>,\u201d showed that more than 17.7 million Americans used marijuana daily or near-daily in 2022 as compared to 14.7 million who reported drinking alcohol at the same rate.<\/p>\n<p>Far more people consume alcohol than cannabis, research showed, but \u201chigh-frequency\u201d drinking is less common. In 2022, the \u201cmedian drinker\u201d reported drinking on 4 to 5 days in the past month, compared to 15 to 16 days in the past month for the median cannabis user.<\/p>\n<div class=\"caas-da\">\n<div id=\"sda-INARTICLE\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Regular cannabis use still pales in comparison to daily use of cigarettes, researchers noted. More than 24.1 million people smoked cigarettes daily or near-daily compared to the 17.7 million Americans who used cannabis regularly.<\/p>\n<p>The research also showed that older Americans are using more regularly than younger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2022, people 35 and older accounted for (slightly) more days of use than did those under the age of 35,\u201d the study notes.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers used data compiled over more than 40 years from the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, which showed cannabis use began to rise at a corresponding rate to changes in cannabis policies.<\/p>\n<p>As of 2024, 24 states and the District of Columbia have legalized recreational marijuana use, according to the Pew Research Center. Another 14 states allow for medical use only.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice proposed new regulations that would\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/marijuana-may-soon-be-a-schedule-iii-drug-what-will-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:designate cannabis a Schedule III drug;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-rapid_p=\"11\" data-v9y=\"1\">designate cannabis a Schedule III drug<\/a>, rather than its current designation of a Schedule I drug. Cocaine, methamphetamine and fentanyl are among the drugs that have received the Schedule II designation.<\/p>\n<p>Schedule I drugs are those with the highest potential to create dependency issues and are considered to have \u201cno currently accepted medical use.\u201d The DOJ decision cites the use of marijuana in the medical field as one of the reasons it warrants reclassification.<\/p>\n<p>The recently published research concluded that long-term trends in cannabis use have paralleled cannabis policy changes, with declines during periods of \u201cgreater restriction and growth during periods of policy liberalization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But researchers stressed that changes in laws regarding cannabis can\u2019t be definitely attributed to the rise in use.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth could have been manifestations of changes in underlying culture and attitudes. However, whichever way causal arrows point, cannabis use now appears to be on a fundamentally different scale than it was before legalization,\u201d researchers wrote.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full study and read more about the findings and methodology used,\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/add.16519\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-rapid_p=\"12\" data-v9y=\"1\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright 2024 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Source:https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/daily-cannabis-surpasses-daily-alcohol-211954850.html?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travis Schlepp\u00a0 \u00a0KTLA TV station, Los Angeles May 24, 2024\u00b7 For the first time in history, marijuana has surpassed alcohol in daily use amongst Americans, according to a new study Research published earlier this week in the monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal \u201cAddiction,\u201d showed that more than 17.7 million Americans used marijuana daily or near-daily in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,119,14,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-marijuana","category-prevalence","category-social-affairs","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}