This statistic presents the percentage of *** and **** grade students in Canada who reported that they had used cannabis in the last 12 months from 2002 to 2014, by gender and year. According to the data, among students in grades * and **, ** percent of boys and girls had tried cannabis in 2018 compared to28 percent in 2008 .
Adapted from Statistics Canada, The Health of Canadian Youth: Findings from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Study, page 116, 2002 to 2018. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
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Health Canada. (June 23, 2020). Percentage of Canadian students in grades 9 and 10 that reported using cannabis in the last 12 months from 2002 to 2018, by gender [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved July 15, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/788854/cannabis-use-among-canadian-students/
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Health Canada. (2020). Percentage of Canadian students in grades 9 and 10 that reported using cannabis in the last 12 months from 2002 to 2018, by gender. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: July 15, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/788854/cannabis-use-among-canadian-students/
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