• Eheran@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Would we not expect sudden changes then? This is a steady decline, not indicating any sudden changes in laws or anything.

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      4 months ago

      Weed legalization hasn’t been sudden though. It’s progressed from medical to decriminalized to legal state by excruciating state.

      As this graph is national, it makes sense that there wouldn’t be a cliff because there’s no particular date when we could say weed became legal.

      Still not legal in any way here in texasss, and I assume we’ll be the very last of the last to do so. But even here, it’s so easily accessible that a good number of younger people I know tell me they prefer weed to alcohol. In legal states, that tendency must be much higher.

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        4 months ago

        Do we have the same date for individual states? Perhaps some with and some without legal weed?

    • darkdemize@sh.itjust.works
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      Legalization efforts have been piecemeal throughout the country, and still less than half the states have direct recreational access. I’m sure it’s a factor, but until we have federal recreational legalization, we should see a downward trend instead of a drop.