The
NSDUH Report: Use of Marijuana and Blunts among Adolescents,
2005
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Highlights:
- Marijuana
blunts are cigars with tobacco replaced with marijuana. Blunt use
is defined as smoking part or all of a cigar with marijuana in it.
- Based
on SAMHSA's 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 6.8% (1.7
million) youth aged 12 to 17 used marijuana in the past month and
3.5% (891,000) smoked "blunts" (cigars with marijuana in
them) in the past month.
- In
2005, about half (52%) of past month marijuana users aged 12 to 17
also used blunts in the past month with males more likely than females
to have smoked blunts (55.6% vs. 47.5%).
- Among
past month marijuana using youths, rates of smoking blunts in the
past month were highest in the Northeast (62.5%) and the South (54.4%)
than in the Midwest (48.3%) and West (43.1%).
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This Short
Report, The NSDUH Report:
Use of Marijuana and Blunts among Adolescents, 2005,
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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