what are the important changes in those years for cannabis was legalized in Canada?

It’s been a few years since cannabis was legalized in Canada, what are the important changes in society and people’s lives in those years?

Some Canadian residents said that when legalization was first introduced, the smell of marijuana was all over the streets, especially in the downtown Eaton Center neighborhood, and then slowly spread to areas around the GTA, such as North York and York, the more northern “suburbs”, and then the situation gradually improved. I know a few friends who have tried marijuana after legalization, two of the three have since returned to cigarettes, and only one has become addicted, and by the way, has blown up. Balloons a year ago snacks laced with marijuana ingredients are still prohibited, but a year later, there will soon be a batch of marijuana snacks began to sell, in the food mixed with some marijuana ingredients also become legal, when the time will become what kind of life I later said.

The price of marijuana, based on 2012, has fallen, and legalization has increased the rate of price decline more significantly.

The number of people using marijuana, which rose after legalization and then fell back, showed very little difference from before legalization.

In the 3rd quarter of 2018 (i.e., when marijuana was not legalized), 15.2% of people had used marijuana in that quarter.

4Q 2018 (i.e. the quarter marijuana was legalized), 15.4%

1Q 2019, 17.5%

2Q 2019, 16.1%

3Q 2019, 17.1%

4Q 2019, 16.7%

The marijuana-related crime rate, before legalization, was about 92 per 100,000 people.

After legalization, it dropped significantly to 0–5 per 100,000 people. Although this is par for the course.

Previously, in the official Canadian narrative, cannabis was legalized for three reasons.

1.keep cannabis out of the hands of youth prevent youth from obtaining marijuana

2.keep profits out of the pockets of criminals

3.protect public health and safety by allowing adults access to legal cannabis protect the health and safety of the public

What are the benefits of legalizing marijuana in Canada？

By now, the breakdown of marijuana crimes is as follows.

The most common offenses are: illegal import/export, possession of marijuana for distribution and sale, and possession of more than 30 grams of dried marijuana by adults.

But notice in the second line, 177, that it is juvenile possession of more than 5 grams of dry marijuana.

This means that legalization does not “prevent juvenile access to marijuana”. But whether legalization has done a better job than before is not clear here.

It does “prevent criminals from profiting,” or at least significantly reduces their profits.

People who use marijuana now prefer to buy it legally, and a small percentage choose to grow their own, but 43 percent still buy it illegally.

Protecting the health and safety of the public is partially done, as cannabis products purchased through legal means are much safer.

The 2nd Quarter 2019 Marijuana Report, which says that about 76% of respondents think the most important thing about buying marijuana is: safety and assurance of quality. (More than 6,000 people surveyed)

Among those who had used marijuana in the past three months, the frequency of use was as follows

Daily marijuana smokers accounted for 6.4% of the total population over the age of 15 and were significantly more likely to be male than female.

About 24% of people who have smoked marijuana in the past three months have spent nothing, and about 22% have spent more than $250 on marijuana products in the past three months.

The average price of marijuana in Canada is currently about $7/gram.

A web page that sells cannabis rolls has the following prices: $375 will buy you 100 1 gram rolls (about half the cannabis content)

For $250 you can only get 36 grams of dried cannabis, or 67 of these rolls.

Therefore, all “marijuana users” who spend less than 250 (80%) will smoke less than 67 sticks in three months, i.e. less than 1 stick per day.

In the next three months, will they smoke marijuana more or less, respondents answered.

Those who had never smoked before: 1.3% said they would try it cautiously, and 98.7% said they would not try it.

Those who had only smoked once or twice: 64.2% said no change, 26.8% said they would smoke more, and 9% said they would smoke less.

Those who smoked marijuana every day: 93.5% said no change and 6.5% said they would smoke less.

Driving after smoking marijuana

Canadian Police 2018 Crime Report, 70,400 “Driving Under the Influence” (DUI) arrests in 2018, with the vast majority being driving under the influence (93%) and only 6% being under the influence of drugs.

However, drug DUI arrests did increase by +25% due to: changes in the law, increased enforcement of drug DUI, etc.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/daily-quotidien/190722/dq190722a-eng.pdf?st=6o6YykvB

People who drove within 2 hours of smoking marijuana (at least once in the past three months) decreased slightly from 14.2% after legalization to.13.2%。

About medical marijuana

Three percent of men and three percent of women claimed to be medical (but there was no medical documentation to support the claim), compared to one percent who had medical documentation to support the claim.

Difficulty of quitting marijuana.

The link below is to a 6 month follow up experiment, 193 person size, participants were all daily users who smoked marijuana at least 5 days a week.

In the end, 8% of people who said they hadn’t smoked in the last month at month 6.

This quit success rate appears to be lower than quitting smoking. (About 6% of smokers were able to quit within a year.

At the end of the 3 month IVR monitoring period, 10% of participants had been abstinent for the prior 7 days; i.e. point prevalent At the end of the 3 month IVR monitoring period, 10% of participants had been abstinent for the prior 7 days; i.e. point prevalent abstinent, and 5% had been abstinent for the prior month; i.e. sustained abstinent.

At 6 month follow-up, 8% of participants had not used cannabis in the last month.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4877269/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Government of Canada Cannabis Taxes

4Q 2018 + 1Q 2019, direct sales taxes over six months, totaling $186 million.

Additional Canadian data: comparison of toxicity, dose, lung damage, and social loss of smoking and marijuana smoking,ref.

Add to this: Two answers mention that the Canadian government is losing money even selling marijuana, however.

The so-called “Canadian government lost $40 million selling marijuana” is pure bullshit.

As mentioned earlier, the Canadian government has made a profit of $186 million in the first six months from marijuana taxes, so what is the loss?

Secondly, the so-called “$40 million loss” is from the Ontario Cannabis Retail Corporation’s annual financial report. Download it here.

https://www.doingbusinesswithocs.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/OCRC-2018-19-AUDITED-FINANCIAL-STATEMENTS-ENG.pdfwww. doingbusinesswithocs.ca

The reported profit on sales is $63.87 million (rounded), but the annual income and expense is -$42.02 million.

The three major expenses were

Cost of sales: -$44.09 million ($36.78 million of which is inventory, not sure how many years of stockpiling.

Selling, general and administrative expense: -61.24 million, many are one-time expenses, ranked in front of the 2 items.

Shared service: is before 2018–2–14, and OFA borrowed almost 650.5 million, now pay back part of about 25 million.

Impairment: Because the government announced that no more new stores will be opened, and as a result, all the assets bought for the opening of the stores will be reclassified as losses.

About somking accessories built in recently year

Vape retailers are also showing a different trend out of the cannabis market. More people are trying out new clothes like different pipes and mini nectar collectors.
This has led to different vape art and unique vape products.