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The trends of cannabis use for 2025 is garnered by Gallup Poll in reviewing data from 2023 and 2024 to help determine trends for 2025.
According to Gallup Researchers the percentage of U.S. adults who report they smoke marijuana has more than doubled since 2013, when Gallup first added the question to its annual Consumption Habits survey. That year, 7% said they smoke it.
Marijuana use varies significantly by gender, age and other respondent characteristics:
Men (17%) are more likely than women (11%) to say they smoke marijuana.
Adults aged 55 and older (10%) are less likely to report using marijuana than are middle-aged (18%) and young (19%) adults.
Smoking marijuana is more common among adults without a college degree (17%) than it is among college graduates (11%).
Democrats (23%) are more than twice as likely as Republicans (10%) to report using marijuana, with independents’ rate (14%) falling between them.
Regionally, the highest rates of marijuana usage are in the West (19%), Midwest (16%) and East (16%). It is lower in the South, where 11% report using it.
Gallup has also recorded a significant increase in the U.S. public’s support for the legalization of marijuana over the past six decades, rising from 12% in 1969 to a high of 70% in 2023, before leveling off at 68% this year.
As Gallup has found previously, current marijuana smokers tend to be young, but other demographic differences are fairly modest. The same is found with consuming marijuana edibles. Experimentation with marijuana is similar by age, likely because older people who report having tried it did so when they were young.
Here are the current demographic patterns for all three marijuana-related behaviors.
Gender: Men are more likely than women to say they have ever tried marijuana, but the two genders are similar in their self-reports of smoking marijuana and consuming marijuana edibles.
Age: The highest usage rates are reported by adults 18 to 34, with 30% of this group saying they smoke marijuana and 22% consuming edibles. These figures drop to 16% each for adults 35 to 54 and 7% each for those 55 and older.
Education: Unlike the strong educational relationship seen with tobacco, education is not a great discriminator in people's use of marijuana. Those with a college degree are about as likely as those with no college education to have ever tried it or to use it currently.
Party: Democrats and independents report similar levels of marijuana use, while Republicans are less likely to smoke or eat it. They are also less likely to have ever tried it.
As legalization continues the trends of more consumption look promising to producers and retailers of cannabis in the states where it is legal.
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