After a strong, sustained and successful anti-cannabis demand reduction campaign in the late 80’s and early 90’s, cannabis use was declining from a then historic high, but the N.O.R.M.L’s push to use ‘medicinal marijuana’ in the mid 1990’ as a trojan horse to get declining youth use back up, has seen that strategy work, as the following tragically reveals.
- Key MTF findings on college students’ marijuana use in 2020 and recent trends are:
- In 2020, annual prevalence of marijuana use reached a historic high since the early 1980s, at 44%.
- The five year trend from 2015 to 2020 showed a significant 6% jump in the annual prevalence of marijuana use.
- Daily marijuana use increased to 7.9% a new all-time high over the past four decades.
- Over one-in-twelve college students use marijuana on a daily or near daily basis.
- 30 day marijuana vaping doubled between 2017 to 2019 from 5.2% to 14%. It slightly declined in 2020 to 12%.
- 44% Annual prevalence of marijuana use among U.S. college students
- The U.S. Monitoring the Future (MTF) report for 2020 found, among college students annual prevalence of marijuana use reached a historic high since the early 1980s, at 44%.
- Monitoring the Future, 2020