The use of cannabis, commonly known as ‘marijuana’, is beginning to be legalized, particularly in European countries and the US. But a new published study provides interesting data on the public consequences of legalizing cannabis use.

Research published by the University of Pittsburgh revealed that alcohol consumption has increased in some US states where marijuana use has been legalized. Special youth and men this rate of increase was much higher.

With the legalization of cannabis, the number of people consuming alcohol began to increase:

The shared research was published in 2010 and 2019. US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) It used data collected from 4.2 million adult individuals. In total, marijuana use was legalized in 11 US states between these years.

The data is just a year after marijuana became legal.consume alcohol at least once” showed an increase of 1.2%. There was no change in the level of moderate or high alcohol consumption.

in the 18-24 age group The rate of increase in alcohol consumption in the same category among individuals is 3.7% used to be. No noticeable change was observed in other age groups.

When the data was analyzed by demographics, the rate of increase was seen to be especially high among men, non-Hispanic white individuals, and those who did not have a college education.

Leading the study is Prof. Dr. Coleman Drake said data is important and long-term He stated that the relationship between alcohol consumption and cannabis could be better understood.