for marital status. The results were basically the same except that, as we predicted, married people were more likely to not use condoms and do not feel that marijuana should be legalized. However, people who were never married were more likely to smoke weed and not use condoms. Once again, the correlations were very weak and had little or no statistical significance.The second theory we tested was that marijuana inhibits the minds ability to think clearly and sometimes causes users to take actions they would not usually take under normal circumstances. Smokers often lose their inhibitions while high, which could lead them to have sex with people they barely know. We then hypothesized that people who smoke marijuana are more likely to have a higher number of sex partners. In order to test our ideas, we operationalized the dependent variable of sex partners, which asks the question How many sex partners have you had in the last twelve months?. Respondents could answer none, one, or two or more. Again, we used the question of whether or not a person thinks marijuana should be made legal or not as our independent variable. Here is what we found:Table II: Whether a Person Feels That Marijuana Should be Made Legal or Not and Number of Sex PartnersThe results showed that people who smoked marijuana did, on average, have more sexual partners than non-smokers. While non-smokers did have higher percentages of one sex partner (68.1% to 59.6% for smokers), our main concern was with people who had two or more sex partners. Smokers were definitely more likely to have two or more sex partners (26.4% to 10.9% for non-smokers). Though the correlation was only moderate, the probability was an extremely low 0.000, thus making the correlation and results highly statistically significant.We wanted to see if male or female marijuana smokers were more likely to have a higher number of sex partners so we controlled for gender in the table. The r...
