Slightly hard to believe in data these days ... I went to uni in portugal and it was rare to find a student that didn't use weed. I guess this is why it was so easy to legalise it.
Well that 10% is highly unlikely to be evenly distributed amoungst the population. The percentage of those that smoke weed from a sample of university students is likely to be higher than the same sample taken from the age groups of 60yr old and above. You can make statistics say whatever you want, pretty sure I could get a pretty high percentage of weed usage if i limit my sample size to Bob Marley and Snoop Dogg.
You don't think it's probable that a) university years (18-22) are likely the peak point for consumption of all drugs (as they are where I live) and b) There's a substantial availability bias in which people you know who (you knew) were cannabis users vs the intersection of people you didn't know and people who didn't use cannabis without making a big deal out of it?
> I went to uni in portugal and it was rare to find a student that didn't use weed
On the other hand, this is also subjective and anecdotal? I'm not doubting that data can have errors, but I'm having hard time criticizing data because it's not what someone "expects" it to be.
I had a stopover in Amsterdam and ended up sharing drinks with a Norwegian who was there to party with friends after graduating from a prestigious school in Bergen.
I was actually taken aback at how negative his views on weed were. He made it sound like successful people in Norway won't touch the stuff. In contrast, I can't think of anyone in in my circle who would have shared his views.
It was a reminder of how we all live in our own bubbles.
I went to college in the US, in a state that has pretty heavy-handed drug penalties, and my experience doesn't sound much different from yours.
As another comment mentioned, using college-aged kids as a representative sample for the entire population is inherently flawed, especially when it comes to things like drug use.
https://transformdrugs.org/drug-decriminalisation-in-portuga...