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## Background: Drug use is often measured in terms of prevalence, meaning the number of people who used any amount in the last month or year, but measuring the quantity consumed is critical for making informed regulatory decisions and estimating the effects of policy changes. quantity is the product of frequency (e.g., number of use days in the last month) and intensity (amount consumed per use day). presently, there is imperfect understanding of the extent to which more frequent users also consume more intensively. ## Methods and data: We examine cannabis flower consumption reported in three similar online surveys fielded in times and places where cannabis was and was not legal. these convenience samples returned enough valid responses (n = 2,618) to examine consumption across different frequencies of use via analyses of measures of central tendency, data visualizations, and multivariate regressions. additional calculations incorporate data from the national survey on drug use and health. ## Findings: Respondents who reported using daily (i.e., 30 days in the past month) consumed almost twice as much per day of use on average as did those reporting less than daily. we find only mo

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Author

Jonathan P. Caulkins; Bryce Pardo; Beau Kilmer

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0955-3959)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)