--- description: A Mashable.com poll has found that almost one in 10 Americans have turned up at work high on weed title: Poll: 1 in 10 Americans Has Gone to Work High on Weed image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Drugs](/tag/drugs/) ## Drugs Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # 1 in 10 Americans Has Gone to Work High on Cannabis, Poll Says by [Elizabeth Barber](/author/elizabeth-barber/) ## Elizabeth Barber Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 19, 2014 9:34 AM CUT by [Elizabeth Barber](/author/elizabeth-barber/) ## Elizabeth Barber Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 19, 2014 9:34 AM CUT One in 10 Americans has turned up for work high on marijuana, according to new [statistics](http://mashable.com/2014/09/17/going-to-work-high/ "undefined"). A joint Mashable.com and SurveyMonkey poll of 534 Americans found that about 9.7% of U.S. workers have gone to work after smoking weed. Some 81% of those people bought the drug illegally, the poll found — that is, did not purchase it in Colorado or Washington, where the drug is legal for recreational purposes, or were not taking it for medical reasons in one of the 23 states where doing so is legal. The poll also found that 28% of poll respondents have gone to work under the influence of a prescription drug, and 7% of those people took it for recreational, not medical, purposes. About 95% of people who have been at work while on a prescription drug got the medicine from their doctor. Last month, a [poll](http://mashable.com/2014/08/04/hangover-at-work/ "undefined") from Blowfish (the company sells a tablet to treat hangovers) said that half of all Americans have gone to work hungover. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3399952/1-in-10-americans-weed-cannabis-marijuana-high/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3399952/1-in-10-americans-weed-cannabis-marijuana-high/"},"headline":"1 in 10 Americans Has Gone to Work High on Cannabis, Poll Says","datePublished":"2014-09-19T09:34:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:17:43.014Z","description":"Are your co-workers high on life — or something else?","url":"https://time.com/3399952/1-in-10-americans-weed-cannabis-marijuana-high/","keywords":["Drugs","Marijuana","Pot","Work","medical marijuana","Weed","prescription drugs"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Elizabeth Barber","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/elizabeth-barber/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/drugs/","name":"Drugs"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3399952/1-in-10-americans-weed-cannabis-marijuana-high/","name":"1 in 10 Americans Has Gone to Work High on Cannabis, Poll Says"}}]}] ```