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Table 2 Demographic comparisons of respondents who are Never, Prior, and Current Users of cannabis before and after legalization of recreational cannabis in Canada

From: The impact of legalization of access to recreational Cannabis on Canadian medical users with Cancer

	Never Users			Prior Users			Current Users
	Before	After	p	Before	After	p	Before	After	p
	n = 398	n = 395	p	n = 233	n = 209	p	n = 190	n = 248	p
Age ^a
Median	70	70	0·91	63	64	0·03	61	62	0·54
IQR	61–76	62–77		54–69	56–71		52–70	55–69
Not Reported	3	3		1	2		1	1
Gender
Female	213	217	0·69	127	115	0·86	94	123	0·99
Male	182	175		105	92		95	124
Other	0	0		0	1		0	0
Not Reported	3	3		1	1		1	1
Race
Caucasian	284	314	0·25	187	181	0·22	155	197	0·90
Asian	49	42		10	8		7	11
Aboriginal	6	1		4	1		8	8
East Indian	8	9		0	3		2	2
African American	1	0		0	1		2	1
Latin American	2	1		0	1		0	0
Other	25	12		20	3		11	16
Not Reported	23	16		12	11		5	13
Primary Cancer
Breast	93	102	0·23	58	59	0·72	31	46	0·87
Prostate	59	65		27	32		26	23
Gastrointestinal	56	42		27	23		26	44
Blood/Lymph System	52	46		25	23		23	29
Lung	41	32		21	14		24	24
Head/Neck	18	20		25	17		14	19
Gynecologic	28	19		14	9		12	13
Skin	15	11		14	7		11	14
Brain	9	9		9	6		7	7
Genitourinary	7	13		5	4		4	7
Sarcoma	3	11		3	6		4	8
Other	13	13		5	6		7	12
Not Reported	4	2		0	3		1	2
Treatment Stage
Newly Diagnosed	12	20	0·47	13	13	0·04	10	8	0·55
In Treatment	254	249		137	140		130	163
Finished Therapy	100	98		76	44		39	55
Not Receiving Treatment	30	25		7	12		11	20
Not Reported	2	3		0	0		0	2
Education
Less than High School	20	17	0·23	7	5	0·22	8	9	0·84
Some High School	41	35		17	11		13	21
High School/GED	72	84		29	35		41	57
Some College	51	72		59	36		47	51
College Graduate	105	92		67	73		49	64
Graduate Degree	104	92		48	45		29	46
Not Reported	5	3		6	4		3	0

IQR interquartile range
^a Age was calculated using a 2-sample t test
^b p values were calculated using the chi-square test of independence and did not include ‘Other’ and ‘Not Reported’ categories

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