Independence Day Special: This Is Your Country on Drugs

MARIJUANA INDEX

Percentage of high school seniors in 1982 who said that marijuana was "fairly easy" or "very easy" to get: 88.5 (1)

Percentage of high school seniors in 2000 who said that marijuana was "fairly easy" or "very easy" to get: 88.5 (2)

Percent change in number of new marijuana users since 1990: +64 (3)

Percentage of Americans over age 11 who have used marijuana or hashish at least once: 34.6 (4)

Number of Americans over age 11 who are current users of marijuana: 11.2 million (5)

Estimated domestic consumption of marijuana: 1,009 metric tons (6)

Average tetrahydrocannabinol content for commercial marijuana: 5.58 percent (7)

Average THC level in sinsemilla: 13.55 percent (8)

Highest concentration of THC ever found in confiscated marijuana: 33.12 percent (9)

State where it was impounded: Oregon (10)

Year that Congress passed the Marijuana Tax Act, effectively criminalizing possession: 1937

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