I wonder how much of this trend is people just being more open about how often they consume, rather than a rise in actual daily users? As my stats prof always told me, surveys are the worst form of data collection.
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It might also be a symptom of something deeper too. Alcohol use increases in times of recession, for example.
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So , am I reading this chart correctly? Is this showing that only 6.6% of people have a drink at least 300 days a year? I don’t believe that number at all.
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Ironically it could be that being a daily drinker is a bigger stigma than being a daily cannabis smoker. I’m still suspicious of anything that uses self-reporting survey data.
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No, no, you’re misreading the chart. See the title at the top?
“Percent consuming their respective drugs at least 300 days out of the year.”
AKA the bingers or daily consumers. As a result, that chart is going to be skewed because the majority “alcohol users” are normal joe blows who aren’t going to drink regularly. Because cannabis is more of a niche drug, a larger proportion of its users are going to consume every day.