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In its 2021 World Drug Report, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated that 3.98 percent of the global population—roughly 200 million people—used cannabis in 2019. Focusing in on the United States, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) estimated that in 2019 the country had 48.2 million past-year marijuana users. It's not clear if that total includes legal medical marijuana users, which numbered roughly 2.1 million in May 2018 according to non-profit ProCon.org. When compared to SAMHSA's estimate of 11.1 million users in 1997, it becomes clear that reported marijuana use has increased in the United States over the past few decades, whether it's through legalization efforts or otherwise. Some have pointed to the expansion of medical marijuana laws acting as gateways for increased adolescent use; however, multiple studies have tried but failed to find such a cause and effect relationship. Regardless, with 37 U.S. states and D.C. now having some type of legalization law on the books, the number of marijuana users isn't likely to decrease any time soon in the U.S.