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> Make pot available on the same terms and see alcohol usage decline. Has alcohol use dropped in Washington or Colorado? I'm not sure very many people conside
by dpark 10y ago
> Make pot available on the same terms and see alcohol usage decline.
Has alcohol use dropped in Washington or Colorado? I'm not sure very many people consider them interchangeable.
- chadgeidel 10y agoAnecdotally in the Denver/Boulder area I haven't seen an impact. People who drink haven't converted to pot, because - IMHO - it's been "decriminalized" for so long. At places I work we still go out for a beer after work and restaurants are generally unwilling to allow pot products as they are alcohol (that may be a corporate or regulatory thing though). The Guardian published an article stating that alcohol consumption (specifically tax revenue) has actually gone up: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/31/alcohol-industry-sales-marijuana-colorado http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/31/alcohol-indu...