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gummies flavored vaping devices cannabis products containing psychoactive hempderived 8tetrahydrocannabinol thc increasingly marketed us claims federally legal comparable marijuana national data prevalence correlates 8thc use comparisons marijuana use among adolescents us lacking estimate selfreported prevalence sociodemographic policy factors associated 8thc marijuana use among us adolescents past 12 months nationally representative crosssectional analysis included randomly selected subset 12thgrade students 27 us states participated monitoring future study inschool survey february june 2023 selfreported sex race ethnicity parental education census region statelevel adultuse ie recreational marijuana legalization yes vs statelevel 8thc policies regulated vs regulated primary outcome selfreported 8thc marijuana use past 12 months vs use number occasions used sample 2186 12thgrade students mean age 177 years 1054 489 weighted female 232 111 black 411 235 hispanic 1113 461 white 328 142 multiracial prevalence selfreported use past 12 months 114 95 ci 86142 8thc 304 95 ci 265344 marijuana 295 participants reporting 8thc use 354 used least 10 times past 12 months prevalence 8thc use lower western vs southern census regions 50 vs 143 risk difference rd 94 95 ci 152 35 adjusted risk ratio arr 035 95 ci 016077 states 8thc regulated vs regulated 57 vs 144 rd 86 95 ci 129 44 arr 042 95 ci 023074 states vs without legal adultuse marijuana 80 vs 140 rd 60 95 ci 108 12 arr 056 95 ci 035091 use past 12 months lower among hispanic white participants 8thc 73 vs 144 rd 72 95 ci 122 21 arr 054 95 ci 034087 marijuana 245 vs 330 rd 85 95 ci 149 21 arr 074 95 ci 059094 8thc marijuana use prevalence differ sex parental education 8thc use prevalence appreciable among us adolescents higher states without marijuana legalization existing 8thc regulations prioritizing surveillance policy public health efforts addressing adolescent 8thc use may warranted