Most people who use cannabis say it has either completely eliminated or greatly decreased their alcohol drinking, according to a new poll.
The survey of marijuana consumers, conducted by cannabis telehealth platform NuggMD and released to mark the month of “Sober October” in which many people seek to cut back on drinking, found that 31.5 percent of respondents said they have “completely replaced alcohol with cannabis.”
Another 25.8 percent said that marijuana has “greatly decreased my alcohol consumption” and 8.5 percent said it has “somewhat decreased my alcohol consumption.”
In all, two-thirds of cannabis consumers (65.8 percent) say that marijuana has helped them to completely eliminate or at least somewhat decrease their alcohol use.
Meanwhile, 9.8 percent said cannabis has “not changed my alcohol consumption,” 2.1 percent said it has “somewhat increased my alcohol consumption” and 2.7 percent said it has “greatly increased my alcohol consumption.”
The survey involved interviews with a representative sample of 1,005 cannabis consumers in state-legal markets between September 24-26 and has a margin of error of +/- 3.09 percentage points.
The results are the latest in a series of recent market analyses, surveys and studies indicating that the cannabis sector, as well as the
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