Study finds 17% of us toked before legalization
A study finds that 17% of Montrealers admit to smoking cannabis [in the year before] legalization, a proportion that somewhat undercuts CTV’s headline that we were big fans of weed.
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Bill Binns 14:17 on 2020-02-26 Permalink
It is extremely hard to believe that 83% of Montrealers got through highschool without taking a puff here and there.
Blork 14:44 on 2020-02-26 Permalink
Very little is said about the source or method of the study, but the number jumps to 38% for people aged 18 to 24. So that 17% likely includes a lot of older people — in the 50s and 60s, pot smoking was seen as much more degenerate than in later years, so fewer “straight” people did it or at least admitted to it.
Maybe it also includes a lot of immigrants, who either aren’t part of Montreal’s pot-loving culture, or are reluctant to admit it (despite the legality here) because of how it was seen “back home.”
There are also probably a lot of suburban tête carrée types who have only smoked pot while off at some convention where the wild times also involves strippers and whatnot so they are reluctant to admit it even to themselves, plus all the suburban hockey moms who are too busy sloshing down magnums of chardonnay to ever have time for something as stinky as pot.
So yeah. Montreal in 360 degrees, not just the folks you see on St-Denis.
Mark Côté 16:15 on 2020-02-26 Permalink
The article says (at least) 17% used cannabis *in 2018*. Thus the number of Montrealers who have ever partaken must be much higher.
However according to the Canadian Cannabis Survey 2018 22% of Canadians used cannabis that year, so I guess Montreal really is undeserving of its reputation…? Either that or these surveys are not particularly accurate.
Tee Owe 15:09 on 2020-02-27 Permalink
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The latter