| TruckOSaurus said: It's been legal in Canada for a few years now and so far we've not descended into chaos. I personally don't care for it but I'm glad people who want to use it can do freely. |
Not sure if it's directly related, yet
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36443110/
This suggests that medical cannabis was an economic substitute for alcohol in Canada, and that the country's 2017-2018 alcohol sales were roughly 1.8% lower than they would have been without legal medical cannabis.
https://globalnews.ca/news/6574008/drink-less-alcohol-cannabis/
He found a way out, though, after Canada legalized recreational cannabis. He started replacing much of his alcohol consumption with marijuana. He now describes himself as an “ex-low-level alcoholic.”
And alcohol consumption is still declining, while Cannabis consumption has grown
On a volume basis, sales of alcohol declined 1.2% to 3,141 million litres in 2021/2022, which is equivalent to 9.5 standard alcoholic beverages per week per Canadian of legal drinking age. This was the first decline since 2013/2014 and the largest decline in over a decade.
Alcohol is still plenty deadly and the pandemic only raised alcohol related deaths
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/alcohol-deaths-pandemic-1.6712273
And sadly people will always use irresponsibly no matter what the substance is
https://globalnews.ca/news/9941455/cannabis-related-traffic-injuries-canada/
Since 2010, the rate of total traffic injury emergency room visits that involved cannabis increased by 475.3 per cent, according to the study.
During this same time period, the researchers found the rate of total traffic injury emergency room visits that involved alcohol increased by 9.4 per cent.
(Pandemic related likely)
“Cannabis-involved traffic injury visits were increasing pre-legalization, and the period of market commercialization may have resulted in further increases in such visits,” the authors stated in the study.
The study also found that younger adults, particularly males, had an “increased risk of cannabis-involved traffic injuries.”
Almost half of the cannabis-involved traffic injury emergency visits also had alcohol involvement, the study found.
I also wonder is some effect of more attention / more measuring of weed consumption had an affect on these stats, yet it's no surprise that smoking weed + alcohol consumption is a deadly combination when operating a motor vehicle.
TIRF’s national fatality data shows that from January 2016 to October 2018, 21.5 per cent of drivers killed in collisions in Canada tested positive for cannabis use, he said. However, from October 2018 to the end of 2020, this figure rose to 26.4 percent, according to Brown.
“Another consideration is that most drivers that test positive for cannabis — among the drivers that are killed — most of them had also been consuming alcohol,” he said.
Anyway with legalization also came campaigns to inform the public of the dangers
