Depressed Americans are using marijuana at higher rates than Americans who don’t report being depressed, Reuters reports. That may be because people with depression are less likely to view marijuana use as risky, according to some researchers.
Researchers looked at the results of a study, conducted between 2005 and 2017, that asked Americans over the age of 12 about their marijuana habits and their depression, and whether or not there was a relationship between the two. Specifically, the study asked participants if they had experienced any depression in the previous year, and if they had used marijuana in the previous month.
In the earliest year of the study, 2005, 10.2 percent of people with depression reported using pot, while 5.7 percent of individuals without depression reported using it. By 2017, the number of depressed individuals who self-reported using cannabis to get high had risen to 19 percent, while the percentage of people without depression who used it had risen to only 8.7 percent.
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