In a Gallup poll released November 1, 15% of Americans said they smoke cannabis – a figure not statistically different from the 14% average found by the pollster in 2021-2022.
From 2017-2019, Gallup found an average of 12% of Americans said they smoked cannabis – the same figure from 2015-2016 – but up from 7% of Americans who reported smoking cannabis in 2013.
The recent poll found that men (17%) are more likely than women (11%) to say they smoke cannabis and adults aged 55 and older (10%) are less likely to report smoking cannabis than middle-aged (18%) and young (19%) adults.
Smoking cannabis is more common among adults without a college degree (17%) than it is among college graduates (11%), the poll found, with Democrats (23%) more than twice as likely as Republicans (10%) to report smoking cannabis, while the rates among independents (14%) fell in between them.
Regionally, the highest rates of smoking cannabis are in the West (19%), Midwest (16%) and East (16%) – rates are lower in the South (11%).
The rate of people who have tried cannabis fell slightly from 2021-2022 to 2023-2024 from 49% to 47% and support
