Marijuana Statistics

• According to the Monitoring the Future Survey, during 2009, over 30% of high school seniors throughout the U.S. reported using marijuana at least once.
• According to the Monitoring the Future Survey, during 2009, among 10th-graders, over 25% had used marijuana in the past year, and over 15%were reported to be current users.
• According to the Monitoring the Future Survey, during 2009, 11.8 percent of 8th-graders reported marijuana use within the past year, and 6.5% reported using the drug within the past month.
• According to some of the most recent government statistics that are currently available, there were approximately 1.8 million states and local arrests for drug abuse violations in relation to marijuana during 2007; over 6% of these arrests were related to the sale of the drug and over 35% were related to marijuana possession.
• During 2007, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) made over 59,000 arrests that were related marijuana use, which accounts for over one-quarter of all DEA arrests during that entire year.
• Marijuana has been reported to be most commonly used by young adults that are between 18 and 25 years old.
• Among college aged students in the United States, marijuana is reported to be one of the most popular drugs on campus.
• Approximately 28% of college students in the U.S. have reported using marijuana at least once, during 2007.
• A 2007 study that was conducted by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) estimated that over one hundred million Americans that were over the age of 12 have tried marijuana at least once in their lifetime.
• During 2007, among teens that were ages 12 to 17, the average age of first experimenting with marijuana was reported to be 14 years old.
• A recent government survey reported that that over 25% of 8th-graders have tried marijuana at least once in their lifetime; by 10th grade, 21 percent of these students reporting being "current" marijuana users, meaning that they have used the drug within the past 30 days.
• During 2007, nearly 50% of high school seniors in the United States reported trying marijuana at least once and approximately 30% percent of them reported using the drug within the past month.
• Researchers have found that the use of marijuana peaks in the late teens and early twenties then declines substantially in later years.
• According to a survey that was recently conducted by the United Nation Office for Drug Control and Crime, approximately 149 million people around the world use marijuana; this figure represents about 3% percent of the world population.
• Marijuana use has been reported to greatly reduce reaction time for motor skills, such as driving; according to some studies, it is reduced by over 40% after smoking one joint and is by over 60% after smoking two joints.
• According to a recent government report that is related to marijuana statistics, there have been over 7,300 scientific and medical studies conducted that have confirmed the damage that marijuana poses; not one study that has been conducted in the United States, has shown marijuana to be safe.