More Than 11 Percent of US Teens Report Using Delta-8

Published on March 13, 2024

More than 11 percent of 12th graders in the United States have reported using delta-8—a psychoactive substance found in the cannabis saliva plant—in the past year, according to a study published on March 12. Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the study declared that the prevalence of delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol use among adolescents in the United States is a “potential public health concern.” The researchers used a randomly selected subset of 12th-grade students across 27 U.S. states who participated in the Monitoring the Future Study in-school survey between February and June 2023. In the sample of 2,186 12th-grade students, 11.4 percent reported using delta-8, and 30.4 percent reported using marijuana in the past year....

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