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An unfortunately very anti certain-narratives title. Thank you gc.ca for covering something with hard fact. Living in another country with statistically provab
by rob_c 5y ago
An unfortunately very anti certain-narratives title.
Thank you gc.ca for covering something with hard fact. Living in another country with statistically provable damage driven by recent policy (that by scale is demonstrably larger than the benefit) it's a difficult position to hold even with data as you will be called alarmist, heartless or nonsensical.
It's very unfortunate to read this, I wonder does anyone know does Canada's policy on marijuana at all correlate with this recent problem (akin to Scotland thinking relaxing drugs policy wouldn't be making things worse) or is this driven by other causes?
(Genuine question sorry, did some quick googling but I must be getting tired I'm getting conflicting information)
- gpm 5y agoCanadian here - I don't know of any data that addresses your question about marijuana, and I'm not even really sure what that data would look like. Could you give an example of data on this topic that might be interesting? My gut feeling is probably not, legalizing marijuana definitely made marijuana more popular, but I haven't seen any reason to believe it's increasing the popularity of still illegal drugs or alcohol (the sources of these deaths). If anything I would expect that it competes with them (but again have no data to back that up).
- rob_c 5y agoThanks for letting me know. Not sure what data would show that, maybe if there was a strong increase associated in time with legal drug policy change(s)? Other than that, I suppose a link between prosecutions and deaths... I worry that lockdowns haven't helped situations like this, but saying that is... inflammatory...
- Tiktaalik 5y agotbh I'm not sure anything has really changed in Canada since cannabis was legalized. A collective shrug from the populace.
- rob_c 5y agoInteresting to hear. Thanks