USA. How Will Cannabis Legalization Affect Alcohol Consumption? Grab a cocktail after work or head to the cannabis lounge?
USA. How Will Cannabis Legalization Affect Alcohol Consumption? Grab a cocktail after work or head to the cannabis lounge?
Unlike Colorado or Washington, California's legalization allows local jurisdictions to license on-premises cannabis consumption. While this is nothing new to the Bay Area, an increasing number of Californians will confront the “bar versus lounge” decision.
How will legalization affect alcohol consumption? Will drinking go down because people substitute cannabis for alcohol, or will drinking go up because cannabis and alcohol complement each other?
These questions have important implications for the health consequences of legalization, and for tax revenues. Unfortunately, we don't have the answers, yet. (Beau Kilmer and Rosanna Smart, RAND Corporation, 13.02.2018)
https://www.rand.org/blog/2018/02/how-will-cannabis-legalization-affect-alcohol-consumption.html