Cannabis use among Canadian university students is on the rise, but St. Francis Xavier and Bishop have retained their crowns as the two highest standouts in 2019, notes the most recent annual survey from Maclean’s.

The more than 18,000 students who participated in the survey reported higher rates of cannabis use in 2019 than the students who took part the prior year.

The top pot-smoking schools for the second year in a row — aka, your best bet for a higher education — are St. Francis Xavier in Nova Scotia and Bishop’s in Quebec, with 65.5 percent and 61.8 percent, respectively, reporting that they consume cannabis at least once a year.

A close third place goes to Nova Scotia’s Dalhousie University with 61.6 percent, showing a strong smoky appearance from schools in East and East-Central Canada.

Schools in East and East-Central Canada had a smoky presence.

Dalhousie is followed by Queen’s (59.4 percent), Lakehead (57.7 percent) and Wilfrid Laurier (55.1 percent) in Ontario, Acadia (54.4 percent) in Nova Scotia, McGill (54.2 percent) in Quebec, St. Mary’s (52 percent) in Nova Scotia, Western (51.5 percent) in Ontario, Victoria (50.8 percent) in B.C., Laurentian (50.5 percent) in Ontario and Concordia (50.3 percent) in Quebec.

The rest of the schools on the list had rates of less than 50 percent.

With regard to frequency of use, however, it was Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario that took (and then, maybe, ate) the cake, with a reported 57.4 percent daily consumption rate, the highest by far. Distant second and third places in that category were Bishop’s and St. Francis Xavier again, trailing far behind at 9.6 percent and 9.2 percent, respectively.

So much for the schools. Which majors were the biggest plant lovers?

Drama kids took top honour, with 61.4 percent reporting cannabis use in 2019.

Perhaps not surprisingly, it looks like the Drama kids have taken that top honour, with 61.4 percent reporting cannabis use in 2019, up from 55.8 percent in 2018. A close second, perhaps more surprisingly, goes to Poli-Sci majors (55.2 percent) and geography majors (54.6 percent), with Economics, Business, Communications, Sociology, Environmental Science, Physics, International Relations and Kinesiology majors rounding out the Top 10.

The results don’t reflect the average post-secondary student, though. In all, 55 percent of respondents reported never once consuming cannabis in 2019.