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
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