{"id":51887,"date":"2022-08-30T06:30:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T13:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51887"},"modified":"2022-08-30T09:31:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T16:31:17","slug":"marijuana-use-hits-record-high-in-new-gallup-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51887","title":{"rendered":"MARIJUANA USE HITS RECORD HIGH IN NEW GALLUP POLL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marijuana use reached a record high in new polling, as for the first time more Americans said they smoke marijuana than reported smoking cigarettes in the last week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen percent of Americans in a new Gallup\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/28886820.13112\/aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdhbGx1cC5jb20vcG9sbC8zOTY4OTMvYW1lcmljYW5zLW5vdC1jb252aW5jZWQtbWFyaWp1YW5hLWJlbmVmaXRzLXNvY2lldHkuYXNweD9lbWFpbD1iMGJlZmIyZGFmY2UzYTg3ZTdmMTM2YmIwNjU0ZGYwNTNmODQ1M2FjJmVtYWlsYT0xYTI3NTdlMzU4MDAxYmEyNjMxOGIwMmI4NmY0MTMxMSZlbWFpbGI9YzFiNTg5MWVjODJkZTA5ZGJjZjk3M2FkNDk1NDYwMzJlY2U3OTUwZmIzYTdlN2NhODZkZDljZmNjYWJlNjliOA\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB07ed01c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/28886820.13112\/aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdhbGx1cC5jb20vcG9sbC8zOTY4OTMvYW1lcmljYW5zLW5vdC1jb252aW5jZWQtbWFyaWp1YW5hLWJlbmVmaXRzLXNvY2lldHkuYXNweD9lbWFpbD1iMGJlZmIyZGFmY2UzYTg3ZTdmMTM2YmIwNjU0ZGYwNTNmODQ1M2FjJmVtYWlsYT0xYTI3NTdlMzU4MDAxYmEyNjMxOGIwMmI4NmY0MTMxMSZlbWFpbGI9YzFiNTg5MWVjODJkZTA5ZGJjZjk3M2FkNDk1NDYwMzJlY2U3OTUwZmIzYTdlN2NhODZkZDljZmNjYWJlNjliOA\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB07ed01c4&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1661897711049000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0vb62UPHgSJkC_fe4K0_hN\">poll<\/a>\u00a0reported smoking marijuana, up from 12 percent last year and more than double the all-time low of 7 percent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In contrast:\u00a0<\/strong>Fewer Americans, at 11 percent, reported smoking cigarettes in the past week, down from 16 percent last year and a far fall from a peak at 45 percent in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s the highest percentage of reported marijuana use and the lowest percentage of past-week cigarette use since Gallup started asking those questions in 2013 and 1944, respectively.<\/li>\n<li>Nearly half of U.S. adults now report having tried marijuana, up from 4 percent when Gallup first surveyed about its use in 1969.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite increasingly common use of the drug, Americans remain evenly split on whether marijuana is having a negative or positive effect on society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marijuana use reached a record high&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51888,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51887\/revisions\/51888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}