As cannabis beverages gain ground, study after study shows alcohol consumption dropping. You don’t need a conspiracy to explain the panic. You just need the numbers.
Alcohol sales are down. Cannabis beverages are up. And suddenly, a lot of people are very concerned about weed making people puke.
That timing is hard to ignore.
When High Times publisher Josh Kesselman went on TMZ to call out “Big Alcohol” over the latest wave of “scromiting” panic, he didn’t frame it as a medical mystery. He framed it as a business reaction.
“Big alcohol is our biggest foe right now that we know of,” Kesselman said. “And it’s just about money and nothing else.”
New research helps explain why this tension exists at all. Not because it proves who is pushing which narratives, but because it shows why the pressure is real in the first place. For some consumers, cannabis beverages appear to replace alcohol, and drinking drops.
Study: Cannabis beverages are linked to lower alcohol use
Data published in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs suggests that adults who consume cannabis-infused beverages are more likely to substitute cannabis for alcohol and to reduce how much they drink once they do. The paper is titled “The Exploration of Cannabis Beverage Substitution for Alcohol: A Novel Harm Reduction Strategy.”
The abstract is available on PubMed.
Among the study’s key findings, roughly one-third of respondents reported using cannabis beverages. Those users were more likely to say they substituted cannabis for alcohol than non-users. They also reported fewer weekly alcoholic drinks after starting cannabis beverages and less frequent binge drinking.
NORML summarized the findings in a January 15 post: “Study: Cannabis Beverages Associated With Reduced Alcohol Consumption.”
This isn’t a miracle. It’s a pattern.
None of this means cannabis is for …
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