{"id":77556,"date":"2022-04-08T09:36:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T13:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=77556"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:54:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:54:44","slug":"armstrong-and-myran-the-pandemic-had-little-impact-on-canadas-legal-cannabis-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/04\/armstrong-and-myran-the-pandemic-had-little-impact-on-canadas-legal-cannabis-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMSTRONG and MYRAN: The pandemic had little impact on Canada\u2019s legal cannabis sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Research at Brock University, and Daniel Myran, Public Health Physician and Canadian Institutes of Health Research Fellow at the University of Ottawa, had a piece recently published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-pandemic-had-little-impact-on-canadas-legal-cannabis-sales-180206\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em> about growth in Canada\u2019s legal cannabis industry being related to an increase in stores and products.<\/p>\n<p>They write:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe pandemic saw a boom in legal recreational cannabis sales across Canada. From March 2020 to February 2021, sales\u00a0totaled $2.5 billion, double the $1.25 billion of the previous 12 months. Surveys likewise reported\u00a0more cannabis users\u00a0and\u00a0more frequent usage\u00a0in 2020 than the year before.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The increases\u00a0were often blamed, despite a lack of evidence,\u00a0on the COVID-19 pandemic\u00a0and related societal disruptions. Many people were stuck alone at home and feeling stressed. Some commentators later\u00a0walked back their claims after it became clear there was no data to support them, but\u00a0the narrative still persists.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Although it\u2019s a compelling anecdote, our new research found that the\u00a0growth in cannabis sales was more likely from industry expansion, rather than the pandemic.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-pandemic-had-little-impact-on-canadas-legal-cannabis-sales-180206\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation <\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-pandemic-had-little-impact-on-canadas-legal-cannabis-sales-180206\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Research at Brock University, and Daniel Myran, Public Health Physician and Canadian Institutes of Health Research Fellow at the University of Ottawa, had a piece recently published in The Conversation about growth in Canada\u2019s legal cannabis industry being related to an increase in stores and products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,7,6],"tags":[594,4395,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77560,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77556\/revisions\/77560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}