According to a recent survey by NuggMD, a strong 77% majority of cannabis users in the U.S. say they get all or most of their cannabis products from legal, licensed sources.
Specifically, 65% of survey respondents said “all” of their cannabis products came from legal sources, while 12% said “most” of their products came from legal sources, although they still occasionally resorted to alternative sources such as Delta-8 shops, vape shops, or an unlicensed dealer.
The survey, conducted online, included 473 people, with a margin of error of +/- 4.51 percentage points. NuggMD, which is primarily a cannabis telemedicine platform, said most respondents said they use cannabis primarily or exclusively for medical reasons—the rest said they also use it for recreational purposes to some extent—and that most used cannabis daily, which may have skewed the results.
Cannabis remains a federally banned Schedule I substance for now, but the Biden administration announced plans this year to move the plant to Schedule III, which would expand research access for the plant and reduce tax pressure on federally legal industries. During a recent public comment period on the plan, about 90% of responses submitted to the administration supported the plan or called for removing cannabis from the controlled substances law entirely.
Meanwhile, a survey in June found that there are more daily cannabis users than daily drinkers in the US
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