Annual Report on Marijuana Use Among Arrestees, 1998:Research rept

摘要

Levels of marijuana use among persons involved in the criminal justice system are high; often one-third or more of the population has used marijuana within days of an arrest (NIJ, 1998). In 1998 the percentage of adult male respondents testing positive for marijuana use in the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) program ranged from a high of 53.1 percent in Oklahoma City to a low of 24.8 percent in San Jose. For the 32 sites that collected data on female arrestees during 1998, the proportion of arrestees testing positive for marijuana ranged from 37.9 percent in Seattle to 13.3 percent in Laredo. Within any given site, men were generally more likely than women to test positive for marijuana in 1998. In addition, younger adults (15-20 and 21-25 years of age), whether male or female, were the most likely to be involved with marijuana.