Survey: Most Young Adults in Minnesota Don’t Use Marijuana

About one-third of young adults ages 18 through 25 in Minnesota say they’ve used marijuana in the last month. Recent data shows that 36-percent of young adults have used marijuana and cut back on consuming alcohol.

Only about 9-percent of those over the age 25 admit to using marijuana, according to City Pages. The National Survey on drug Use and Health polls multiple demographic groups, all the way down to adolescents age 12 and older. From 2009 to 2015, an increase of 13-percent of adults ages 18 and older using marijuana was shown.

Michal Ford of Minnesota NORML said, “As more states make marijuana legal, either medically, for recreation, or both, what you’re seeing is more and more people in the mainstream becoming interested and open to the subject. As the laws change, it becomes more socially acceptable. This country is slowly getting out of the Dark Ages when it comes to marijuana.”

Minnesota doesn’t have a budding marijuana industry yet, but supporters are hoping to see that change soon.