Current marijuana use among U.S. adults in 2023 was highest in Vermont, where around 26.67 percent of adults reported using marijuana within the past year. In recent years, a number of U.S. states, including Colorado and California, have legalized the sale of marijuana for recreational use. In 2023, around 133 million people in the United States reported that they had used marijuana at least once in their lifetime. Consumer behavior Starting around 2013, the majority of U.S. adults now say they are in favor of legalizing marijuana in the United States. The share of adults who were in favor of legalization has continued to increase over the years. As of 2021, about 68 percent of U.S. adults aged 18 and older were in favor of legalization. Legal sales of marijuana reached 16.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2021, and are expected to increase to around 37 billion dollars by the year 2026. COVID-19 impact on marijuana use The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting lockdowns led to fears of an increase in substance abuse in many parts of the world. In March 2020, around 40 percent of millennials who used cannabis in the past year reported that they planned to increase their marijuana use during the COVID-19 pandemic. This rise in usage was reflected in sales early in the pandemic. In California for example, sales of marijuana on March 16, 2020 increased 159 percent compared to the same day in 2019.

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In 2024, approximately 64.1 million people used marijuana in the past year. This statistic shows the number of people in the U.S. who have used marijuana in the past year from 2009 to 2024.

Israel had the highest prevalence of cannabis use worldwide in 2020. Approximately ** percent of the adult population had consumed cannabis during that year. This is significantly more than in any other country. In the United States (U.S.), the prevalence of cannabis use is about ** percent. Cannabis around the world In Europe, Czechia had the highest prevalence of cannabis use among adults, with **** percent of their adult population consuming cannabis. However, while many Europeans consume cannabis, only a very small share of the legal cannabis sales worldwide are generated in Europe. North America has by far the largest share of legal cannabis sales, accounting for nearly the entire market. Nonetheless, unlike in Canada, where cannabis has been fully legalized, the drug remains illegal at the federal level in the U.S. and is only legalized in certain states. The legal status of cannabis in the United States One of the U.S. states that legalized cannabis is California. The state of California, which is the most populous state in the U.S., now collects almost *********** U.S. dollars from taxes generated by the sales of recreational marijuana. This is more than ***** as much as any other state collects. The support for legalizing marijuana among the adult U.S. population has changed significantly during the last half a century. While approximately ** percent supported legalization in 1969, it is now more than ********** of the population. Cannabis is particularly popular among college students in the United States. The percentage of U.S. college students that used cannabis regularly, that is monthly or more frequently, was almost ** percent in 2021.

In 2019, about 8.5 percent of Asian high school students in the United States stated that they smoked marijuana at least once in the past month. This is compared to 33.8 percent of American Indian/Alaska Native students who said the same.