Method of intake

Designed Techniques

Popularity percentage

Trend in the last decade

Ref.

smoking

Blunt: cannabis rolled into a cigar removed of tobacco

40%

increase

[11]

Joint: cannabis rolled in paper and smoked

30%

Increase

[14]

Pipe: cannabis smoked in a glass pipe

40%

increase

[14]

ingestion

drinks

60%

Increase

[15]

ingestion

food

60%

Increase

[15]

ingestion

lozenges

60%

increase

vaporizing techniques

Bong: burned cannabis bubbled through water

13%

Increase

[14]

Hookah: cannabis mixed with flavored tobacco and smoke bubbled through water

25%

Increase

[12]

Dabbing: cannabis products chemically dissolved in solvent vapors

25%

increase

[12]

G-pen: Cannabis concentrated into wax, oil, or hash and vaporized through e-cigarette

26%

increase

[16]

skin and mucosal surface absorption

creams

18%

Increase

[11]

patches

13%

increase

[17]

sprays

16%

Increase

[17]