Mental Health and Access to Care Survey (MHACS)

Cannabis or other drug use of person, category

Cannabis or other drug use refers to whether or not the person reported using cannabis, hashish or other illicit drug or reported having used a medicine non medically at least once during a specified period.

Person refers to an individual and is the unit of analysis for most social statistics programs.

The data for this variable are reported using the following classifications and/or lists:

• Cannabis or Other Drug Use, Total Responses, Lifetime
  Data tables

  • Mental Health Profile, Canadian Community Health Survey - Mental Health (CCHS), by age group and sex, Canada and provinces Table: 105-1101
• Cannabis or Other Drug Use, Total Responses, previous 12 Months
  Data tables

  • Mental Health Profile, Canadian Community Health Survey - Mental Health (CCHS), by age group and sex, Canada and provinces Table: 105-1101