| Table 19. High school students' use of marijuana, by gender, race/ethnicity, and grade in percent | ||||||||||||
| Lifetime Marijuana Use** | Current Marijuana Use† | |||||||||||
| Female | Male | Total | Female | Male | Total | |||||||
| Galveston* | ||||||||||||
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||||||||
| White | 45.9 | 50.5 | 47.7 | 21.7 | 25.5 | 23.4 | ||||||
| Black | 34.8 | 42.0 | 37.8 | 17.2 | 25.1 | 20.9 | ||||||
| Hispanic | 39.4 | 49.8 | 44.7 | 16.4 | 28.7 | 22.1 | ||||||
| All other | 37.9 | 50.0 | 45.0 | 19.1 | 35.1 | 28.8 | ||||||
| Grade | ||||||||||||
| 9 | 33.9 | 43.3 | 39.1 | 16.1 | 26.0 | 21.4 | ||||||
| 10 | 32.6 | 43.2 | 37.7 | 16.3 | 26.0 | 21.1 | ||||||
| 11 | 51.3 | 52.0 | 51.1 | 20.1 | 27.5 | 23.0 | ||||||
| 12 | 45.7 | 60.5 | 51.8 | 23.7 | 32.5 | 27.3 | ||||||
| 2007 Total* | 39.6 | 47.7 | 43.5 | 18.4 | 27.5 | 22.7 | ||||||
| 2004 Total* | 43.0 | 51.4 | 46.9 | 20.3 | 29.0 | 24.3 | ||||||
| 2002 Total* | 48.8 | 52.6 | 50.6 | 27.3 | 30.8 | 29.0 | ||||||
| 2000 Total* | 25.3 | 36.2 | 30.4 | |||||||||
| Texas* | 38.6 | 45.6 | 42.2 | 18.6 | 24.6 | 21.7 | ||||||
| United States* | 35.9 | 40.9 | 38.4 | 18.2 | 22.1 | 20.2 | ||||||
| *Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance survey. Galveston 2000, 2002, 2004, 2007, Texas and United States 2005. | ||||||||||||
| ** 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 | ||||||||||||
| Not Available | ||||||||||||