Table 10

Initiations of other illegal drugs by race (N=2400). Although race seems related to initiation rates throughout, this shows that drug initiations by all aces trying cannabis have been falling proportionately as the adolescent market matured.


Caucasian
African American
Hispanic
Asian

Psilocybin
82.33%
41.08%
53.50%
65.21%
LSD
69.56%
28.13%
43.71%
42.47%
P/M
35.19%
21.42%
15.34%
19.82%
Coke
74.21%
49.76%
55.55%
51.30%
Meth
52.59%
20.28%
34.67%
30.08%
MDMA
43.43%
28.88%
31.21%
64.65%
Heroin
17.54%
10.50%
7.10%
7.75%

O'Connell and Bou-Matar Harm Reduction Journal 2007 4:16   doi:10.1186/1477-7517-4-16

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