Table 40. Middle school students' use of marijuana, by gender, race/ethnicity, grade, and middle school, in percent
		Lifetime Marijuana Use**				Current Marijuana Use†
		Female	Male	Total		Female	Male	Total
Galveston*
	Race/ethnicity
	White	13.9	23.4	18.8		6.9	11.8	9.7
	Black	12.0	19.8	16.5		6.1	9.8	8.1
	Hispanic	17.6	22.8	20.1		9.8	13.6	11.5
	All other	15.5	23.7	19.7		9.4	18.6	13.5
	Grade
	6	7.5	9.2	8.3		5.9	5.4	5.5
	7	9.7	18.3	14.3		6.5	7.2	6.8
	8	25.8	38.8	32.4		10.7	25.6	18.1
	Middle School
	Austin	14.2	20.8	18.0		7.4	14.7	11.1
	Central	11.1	17.1	14.2		7.5	8.4	7.8
	Crenshaw	16.0	16.0	15.4		8.3	4.0	5.9
	Weis	18.1	27.6	22.9		8.8	15.0	12.2
	2007 Total*	14.8	22.1	18.5		8.0	12.4	10.3
	Dallas ISD,TX*	24.8	36.0	30.4
*Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance survey. Galveston 2007, and Dallas ISD, Texas 2003.
** Used marijuana one or more times during their life.
† Used marijuana one or more times during the 30 days preceding the survey.
Percents may not add up to 100% due to missing values.
White = non-Hispanic white,  Hispanic = any race,  Black = non-Hispanic black, All other  = any other non-Hispanic
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