The growth in cannabis retail stores between 2018 and 2020 was driven by more than just the move to legalize recreational weed three years ago, suggests a new Canadian study.
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“From 2018 to 2020, Canada’s rapid cannabis retail expansion was strongly related to legal sales growth, but only weakly related to prevalence growth,” reports Michael Armstrong, an associate professor of operations research in Brock University’s Goodman School of Business.
That discrepancy “implies prevalence growth during that period was related more to legalization’s other aspects and/or to the continuation of already-existing trends,” Armstrong writes in the pre-proof study in Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
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