This statistic illustrates the share of respondents who have used cannabis in the past year for non-medical purposes in Canada in 2018, broken down by education. Some 28.7 percent of respondents who have a high school diploma recreationally used cannabis in the past year and some 18.6 percent of respondents with a Bachelor's degree used cannabis in the past year.
Consumers who have used cannabis for non-medical purposes in the past year in Canada in 2018, by education level*
* Cannabis use for non-medical purposes is defined as use for a range of non-medical reasons (e.g., socially for enjoyment, pleasure, amusement or for spiritual, lifestyle and other non-medical reasons). Cannabis use includes using cannabis in its dry form or when mixed or processed into another product, such as an edible, a concentrate, including hashish, a liquid, or other product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, canada.ca, May 15 to July 9, 2018. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
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