{"id":2250319,"date":"2024-05-22T12:23:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T16:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/daily-drinking-drops-below-daily-marijuana-use-for-first-time-in-the-us\/"},"modified":"2024-05-22T12:29:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T16:29:12","slug":"daily-drinking-drops-below-daily-marijuana-use-for-first-time-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/daily-drinking-drops-below-daily-marijuana-use-for-first-time-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"In the US, daily alcohol consumption now surpasses daily marijuana usage for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdaily-drinking-drops-below-daily-marijuana-use-for-first-time-in-the-us%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2250319&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-bidens-21-false-or-misleading-statements-from-his-joint-address-to-congress\/\" title=\"Joe Biden\u2019s 21 False Or Misleading Statements From His Joint Address To Congress\">recent study shows<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/daily-marijuana-users-have-42-higher-risk-of-stroke-25-increased-risk-of-heart-attack-study\/\" title=\"Study: Daily marijuana users face 42% higher stroke risk, 25% increased heart attack risk\">daily \u200cmarijuana<\/a> use in \u200bthe United States now exceeds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marijuana-and-psychedelics-use-and-binge-drinking-at-historic-highs-nih\/\" title=\"Marijuana, psychedelics, and binge drinking reach record levels: NIH\">daily drinking<\/a>. The research, comparing different eras of marijuana policy, highlights a rise in marijuana consumption since 2008. This trend, analyzed in Addiction and reported by the Associated Press, reflects changing \u200battitudes towards marijuana\u200d over the years, with specific\u200d eras \u2064indicating \u2063policy shifts and impact on usage patterns.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Daily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/marijuana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>marijuana<\/a> use has outpaced daily drinking in the United States, according to a study published Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/add.16519\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>study<\/a> compared four eras of marijuana policy in the U.S. and found that marijuana use had climbed since 2008, according to the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/marijuana-cannabis-alcohol-drinking-daily-use-b91c2c5957fdb2d48e6616c3baa14c13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Associated Press<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in <em>Addiction<\/em>, compared the rates of marijuana use in 1979, 1992, 2008, and 2022 to daily drinking and researched how marijuana policy may have affected this outcome. The different eras were selected based on available data and because they represented shifts in marijuana policy. For example, 1979 represents the \u201cend of [the] relatively liberal policies of the 1970s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daily marijuana use reached its \u201cnadir\u201d in 1992, which the study notes laid at the end of the conservative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Ronald-Reagan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Ronald Reagan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/George-W-Bush\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>George W. Bush<\/a> presidencies and represented a shift after 1992 toward more liberal policies related to marijuana with the election of President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Bill-Clinton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Bill Clinton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The report suggested marijuana use has been adopted in a similar vein to tobacco use.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA good 40% of current cannabis users are using it daily or near daily, a pattern that is more associated with tobacco use than typical alcohol use,\u201d Jonathan Caulkins, a cannabis policy researcher at Carnegie Mellon University and author of the study, told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>The report noted that while there are still more drinkers in the U.S., those who use marijuana do so far more than those who drink. From 1992 to 2022, there was a 15-fold increase in those who reported using marijuana daily. In 1992, daily drinkers outnumbered daily marijuana users 10 to 1, with 8.9 million people drinking daily versus 0.9 million daily marijuana users. In 2022, the number of daily drinkers versus marijuana users was 14.7\u2009million to 17.7 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marijuana policy has relaxed at the state level since the earlier eras represented in the study. Since 2012, 24 states and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Washington-DC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>District of Columbia<\/a> have legalized marijuana, and a majority of the public live in a state where marijuana has been legalized, at 54%. While many states have legalized the drug, marijuana is still illegal at the federal level.<\/p>\n<p>The study used data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent study, daily marijuana use in the United States has surpassed daily drinking. The study, published in Addiction and comparing four eras of marijuana policy, revealed a significant increase in marijuana consumption since 2008. 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