The number of Americans who say they smoke pot has doubled in the last decade

Title of the article is missing an important prefix... "Reported". We have no idea if pot use has doubled. In fact, we know that it hasn't doubled. The real question is has it actually increased at all.

The majority of the article is about how the studies between 2002 and 2012 are difficult or impossible to compare to each other due to the changing attitudes towards marijuana use and the wave of legalization effecting participant reporting. This not drug testing results showing an increase in failures, this is face-to-face surveys with government officials, and people confessing to illegal (vs potentially now legal) drug use.

I reluctantly became a (medicinal) user for nausea from chemotherapy. But I didn't want to smoke it - I'd rather use an edible or a tincture. (Some collectives also sell capsules of infused oils.)

I probably wouldn't bother if it hadn't become legal for medicinal use in my state. So I could've moved the needle in this study. (If anyone had asked me.)

That being said, I have no desire to get "high" and in fact one of the few times it made me feel that way, it was a miserable experience.

The problem is that with edibles, you never know what dosage you're getting. There are some consistent "brands" but the local collectives move through them, so, particularly with the tinctures you never know what the effect will be. One dropper for one brand, four for another, to get the anti nausea effect without the more psychoactive effects.

Honestly, I'd be perfectly happy if SquabMerCo came out with commercial product that had guaranteed contents.

Drug industry on the march! Will be interesting to see where drug use tops-out as more states legalize and we see the emergence of real marketing and consumer education from the drug suppliers.