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Re:Marijuana Legalization Fails in California by sukuriant on Wednesday November 03, 2010 @04:41AM (#1864175)
42% for 12th graders

Source: http://drugabuse.gov/infofacts/marijuana.html

42.4 for older people

Source: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...

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Re:Marijuana Legalization Fails in California by axod on Wednesday November 03, 2010 @07:10AM (#1864424)
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/lif_can_use-lifestyle-cann...

Suggests it's 12.3% in the US which I find more believable.

The study you cited seems to ask "...EVER used". Which could just mean took one puff once when very drunk.

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Re:Marijuana Legalization Fails in California by sukuriant on Thursday November 04, 2010 @05:41AM (#1868267)
Forgive me, but the link you're citing marks 81% by age 45 have tried cannabis at one point. Where are you getting your 12.3?
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Re:Marijuana Legalization Fails in California by Alex3917 on Wednesday November 03, 2010 @09:37AM (#1864708)
It's actually roughly 85% of Americans have used weed by age 55.[1] The reason the numbers don't normally reflect that is because the age of first use varies widely, so asking what percentage of people currently alive have smoked weed yields a very different answer than asking what percentage of normal people smoke weed during some point of their lives.

http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/statistics/statistics_ar...

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