Study: 39% of Millenial Cannabis Users Consume Multiple Times Per Day

While the general perception about cannabis suggests it is still taboo, the millennial generation is working actively to change this outlook. The millennials have been the pioneers of adult use of cannabis and a big reason why 9 states reviewed cannabis reforms since 2012.

Unlike Baby Boomers, Millennials have proven to be open-minded to new experiences, hence, becoming major drivers of social development. Not only is the Millennial generation changing the societal perception about cannabis, but they also contribute a lot to the evolution of the cannabis industry.

Millennials and the Cannabis Industry

Similar to other consumer goods sectors, Millennial consumers largely dominate the U.S cannabis industry. Now, marketers are innovating new ways to reach this demographic as they search for ways to grow their businesses. Presently, there are about 72 million Millennials in the United States, which makes the generation the largest cohort by population.

The Millennials (individuals born between 1981 and 1996) are now between their late 20s and mid-40s make up a larger percentage of cannabis consumers (38%), followed by Gen X (29%), then Baby Boomers (19%), and Gen Z (13%).

According to Gary Allen the CEO of New Frontier Data, Millennials are active participants in the cannabis industry given the generation witnessed a rapid change in cannabis-related policies and societal attitudes. He added that these young adults witnessed the normalization of cannabis use and the mitigation of negative conceptions about the plant. Now, the generation is playing active roles in the legal cannabis industry both as champions of change and as participants.

Shedding more light on Millennial cannabis preference and consumption habits, New Frontier Data, a market, and analytics research company carried out a new survey.

The New Frontier Data Survey

The New Frontier Data survey was carried out to have a better insight into the unique behavior and attitudes of millennials exhibited towards cannabis. The survey discovered that 39% of millennials who use cannabis usually consume weed several times every day. This was confirmed in a press release published to the general public.

In the past years, cannabis use by millennials has increased across the board. New Frontiers, quoting survey data between 2017 and 2020, noted that there’s been an increase in cannabis use among respondents between the ages of 30 and 34. The survey showed an increase of 36% among the 30 to 34 age group. The figure further increased to 51% among millennials of the 35 to 39 years age group.

Of the total consumption, about 62% of consumption was primarily for adult use. Millenials list relaxation as one of the prime reasons for cannabis consumption. Other reasons that come next are stress relief and treatment of anxiety.

As regards product preferences, the survey indicated that 63% of Millennials use both non-flower and flower products while just 14% of the respondents claim to exclusively use other forms of cannabis. Among the 14%, majorities turn out for being females with 20% of millennial women opting not to smoke compared to just 9% of millennial men. Millennials mostly consume cannabis via joints(24%) followed by edibles (15%), weed (12%), vapes (9%), and bongs ranking least with just 6%.

The New Frontier survey also indicated that millennials mostly prefer to buy cannabis from brick-and-mortar stores and retailers. 35% of the respondents claim that brick and mortar retailers are their primary source while 26% identified they get their cannabis from family and friends. Another 20% claim they still rely on private dealers while 13% make use of delivery services. For every purchase, the survey showed that millennials are likely to buy cannabis worth $200 or more. Approximately 50% of millennials purchase between $50 and $200 worth of cannabis.

The survey also explored what millennial consumers do while using cannabis. Across all generations, listening to music and watching movies/TV at home ranked the most common activities. Apart from these, millennials also indicated other consumption activities, working inclusively which is backed by their full-time employment rates. According to the survey, millennials indicated other activities which included reading (20%), bonding with friends(38%), general chores and cleaning (35%), playing video games (41%), and eating (43%)

In an attempt to make a solid conclusion, New Frontiers upheld the centrality and active roles millennials play in the United States cannabis legal reforms and the general cannabis industry. The millennial generation illustrates an intricate knowledge of cannabis above any other age group and their enthusiasm is backed by their willingness to spend.

While millennials already play important roles in the cannabis industry, more is still expected from the generation. Many expect that the generation will spearhead the adoption of public consumption areas and will fasten the speed of cannabis reform as they continue to fill up elected offices. With such power in elected offices, they will be able to affect cannabis reform changes even at the federal level shortly.

Other vital findings from the survey;

Conclusion

While the general perception about cannabis and its use remains taboo in the United States, the millennial generation is doing everything in its power to address the misconceptions and make cannabis a non-controversial topic.

With so much support from the millennial generation, cannabis reform is bound to happen across all states in America. New regulations will be set in place and the cannabis industry will foster beyond expectation. By then, the older and younger generation will see cannabis in a new light and accept it for what it truly is – a gift from Nature.

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Will China Ever Legalize Marijuana?

A Nightmare Worthy Of George Orwell – The Chinese Government Never Wants Its Citizens To “Wake Up”

China, a global superpower in the world, a country responsible for numerous inventions that have helped save humankind, is now living in a dystopian nightmare that has eerily too many similarities with George Orwell’s famous book, 1984.

In fact, internet users in China aren’t even allowed to type “1984” in social media, and copies of Orwell’s dystopian novels are banned. The novel is set under a fictional regime of constant state surveillance and censorship. The citizens in the book are carefully monitored by “Big Brother” and are made to practice “double think” and only talk in a state-controlled language known as “newspeak.”

Talk about double standards.

An article by Brookings discusses how visualization and police informization is driving Chinese surveillance systems. The communist government has numerous methods of collating massive volumes of data on its over 1.4 billion citizens: from surveillance cameras in the streets to medical history, e-commerce, travel, WeChat, and more, the repressive nature of its surveillance tactics feel like a huge step backward.

On top of that, they place a strict focus on “focus personnel”, who are citizens that are deemed by the government to undermine social stability, or people petitioning the government.

Naturally, the communists have a strict stance against drugs – and all kinds of it. According to the Chinese government, all kinds of drugs pose a serious hazard which is why they take drug control seriously. While Chinese society has, just like many other countries, also suffered from the ills caused by deadly street drugs such as methamphetamine – as well as heroin and fentanyl.

But will the world’s global superpower ever legalize marijuana?

It seems unlikely not, even though it’s extremely ironic that some of the oldest evidence of marijuana consumption has been found in China. Researchers discovered that marijuana was burned for its intoxicating plumes around 2,500 years ago, in a plateau in Central Asia. They also found more evidence of Sogdian culture, an ancient people from western China as well as Tajikistan who followed Zoroastrianism, a religion that appreciated the benefits of cannabis according to their sacred texts.

In addition, both cannabis and hemp were used in China’s early history, part of making traditional Chinese medicine, fibers, textile, and more.

No matter which way you put it, marijuana is an entheogen, plant-based chemicals that induce an unusual state of consciousness. These types of plants have been used since ancient times for spiritual and religious purposes, as many cultures believed that these hallucinations and experiences allowed them to dialogue with the gods among others.

For example, peyote was consumed in Mesoamerica for some 2,000 years is still widely used by the Huichol tribes of Mexico. “For the Huichol, peyote serves as the central sacrament of their rituals,” explains anthropologist Paul Liffman, who has been studying the tribe for many years. “It is taken to illuminate the user, to lighten them from inside,” he adds.

Meanwhile, magic mushrooms and ayahuasca have long been considered “plant teachers” in Latin American nations. Indigenous tribes especially those that reside in the Upper Amazon have had a long history of using ayahuasca which they consider a sacred brew, used for rituals (known as Shipibo) and healing purposes.

Today, cannabis is the most widely accessible and popularly used entheogen. While it was also used for spiritual and religious reasons in the past, people still do so in current times. In a study published in the Journal of Cannabis Research, a survey was sent out online through private messaging and asked 319 participants from various online communities about their experiences with psychedelics and cannabis as well as association to religious traditions, spiritual practices, and motivations for cannabis and psychedelic use.

The results found that 69% of participants used psychedelics and cannabis for spiritual purposes, and 25% of them had a spiritual motivation for using the drug.

Marijuana Will Cause Chinese People To “Wake Up” – And That’s Why It Will Never Be Legalized

Given the effectiveness of entheogenic drugs to ‘wake up’ one’s mind, start discussions about one’s freedom and true feelings, get in touch with your ego, roots for mental health problems and the like, it isn’t surprising why the Chinese communist government will never allow its citizens to consume it legally.

Human rights is a dire problem in China: people simply do not have the freedom of expression, or access to other basic human rights. They are harassed and tortured by the government if they even speak up. Whereas in North America, lobbies for legalizing marijuana on the street are normal, parents speak up if they can’t get access this life-saving medicine for their sick children, and we talk about how marijuana makes us feel – on the internet, all the time. The fact that we can even write and publish these articles – it would be a far cry for it to happen in China, ever. 

The citizens are badly in need of psychiatric and psychological help after having to be under all that mental and physical repression in their own home. The government even goes as far as using mental illness to discredit any dissidents, and in some cases will force their own people to be confined at psychiatric hospitals if they speak badly about the regime.

For as long as people don’t have freedom of speech and expression in China, they will never be able to experience the therapeutic benefits of marijuana, which is extremely disheartening. China will constantly be in the shadows unless a progressive government takes over.

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