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Health and Social risks related to marijuana and alcohol are a serious problem in the United States. This research tried to introduce OLS regression in order to figure out the correlation between use of alcohol and cannabis, and the trend before and after legalization of cannabis, which is a factor that has not been researched in previous literature of alcohol, while a lot of controls were added to the model. It finds out that there is higher likelihood for marijuana users to co-use alcohol, but people tend to consume less alcohol if marijuana is legal. This may be because of the booster effect of cannabis on alcohol. These results might be a sign for future policymakers to implement more demand-side policies to reduce potential cannabis and alcohol addiction risks, as supply-side policies such as legalization might work in the opposite direction. For example, higher taxation on cannabis and alcohol might help.
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IntroductionAlcohol use disorder and related risks (for example, death) has become more prevalent when more population has exposed to use of alcohol, though the extent differentiates by sex, race and socioeconomic status [1]
Alcohol use and abuse is always drawing researchers’ attention
The sketchy result of model 1 is fitted with the assumption based upon Kim et al.’s research that consumption of cannabis might be complementary to that of alcohol, indicating marijuana use is statistically significantly (p = 0.001) positively related to daily alcohol use [5]
Summary
Alcohol use disorder and related risks (for example, death) has become more prevalent when more population has exposed to use of alcohol, though the extent differentiates by sex, race and socioeconomic status [1]. A paper discussing factors affecting people to consume more alcohol during Covid-19 lockdown manifests possible causes of negative emotions, such as loneliness, stress and depression, concerns about their health, plus the common differentials over different sex, age, race, education attainment, etc. Another paper has examined the different impact of these demographic characteristics and acquiring sources on cannabis use deeply [4]. It shows that men, non-Hispanic white, age group from 26 to 34 years old, and higher income group are inclined to purchase cannabis from commercial dispensaries [4]. If the configured restriction of sources of cannabis is loosen, people with cannabis vaporizers and with experience of both alcohol and cannabis have a higher tendency to purchase cannabis [4]
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