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How & Where Young Adults Obtain Marijuana

The NSDUH Report:  How and Where Young Adults Obtain Marijuana

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  • Based on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health combined data from 2002 to 2004, most of the young adults aged 18 to 25 who had used marijuana in the past year obtained their most recently used marijuana from a friend either free or by purchase.
  • Among young adults who had used marijuana in the past year, 58.3% obtained their most recently used marijuana for free or shared someone else's and 40.0% bought their marijuana.

  • Young adults who were daily marijuana users were more likely than nondaily marijuana users to have bought their most recently used marijuana (75.3% vs. 33.8%).

  • Young adult users of marijuana in the past year who used marijuana daily were more likely than nondaily marijuana users to have gotten their most recently used marijuana inside a home, apartment, or dorm room and less likely to have gotten their marijuana from inside a public building or outside in a public area.

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This Short Report, The NSDUH Report:  How Youths Obtain Marijuana ,   is based on SAMHSA's  National Survey on Drug Use and Health conducted by the Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).  SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) is the primary source of information on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of drug and alcohol use and abuse and for selected mental health measures in the general U.S. civilian non institutionalized population, age 12 and older.   SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use & Health also provides estimates for drug use and for selected mental health measures by State.

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