Happy Thursday everyone. I’m not in the States this week. I’m currently staying in a place I can absolutely guarantee is in the picture below. We’re staying in the area on the right side of this pic from that radio tower and up that slope a bit. The picture that opens this diary is the view looking in the opposite direction from the mountains just behind where we are staying and what that looks like.
I don’t know if I’ll be able to be here today because I could be doing anything right now. I thought I’d toss something out here that I found interesting on the day I was writing this. I’m sure you will be shocked...shocked I tell you, that it’s about cannabis and California.
There are some trends taking place here now. I’ll let you decide if you want to read any more than the three paragraphs I’m putting up from a study regarding changing attitudes about cannabis in the Golden State since recreational marijuana became legal. It’s really quite an interesting study full of a bunch of demographic statistics and I hope you find these bunch of stats as interesting as I did. It shows a rapid shift taking place in attitudes regarding cannabis, that’s for sure.
Here’s a nugget from the article followed by a blockquote: The study also found, despite the lazy-stoner-stereotype, 53 percent of consumers work full-time jobs and have an average annual income of nearly $70,000.
A recent study by BDS Analytics, a cannabis industry market trend and research group, suggests the impact of legalization has shifted Californians’ attitudes, opinions, motivations and actions in regards to cannabis. It also reveals an abundance of details about those who consume, accept and reject the plant, not only illustrating a shift in social culture but also indicating—at least in the Golden State— cannabis’ archaic stigma is en route to extinction.
The survey yielded three clear groups. The "consumers,” whose average age is 39-years-old, and have used marijuana or products containing cannabinoids in the past six months. “Acceptors,” whose median age is 49-years-old, and haven’t used cannabis in the past six months, but would consider using it in the future. Lastly, “rejecters,” whose average age is 56-years-old, and haven’t consumed cannabis in the last six months and are not likely to consider future use.
According to the report, there’s been a significant increase in cannabis consumption among Californians' over the past year. Consumers currently account for 29 percent of adults in California, which is up from 23 percent in 2017. The number of acceptors, on the other hand, declined from 38 percent in 2017 to 33 percent in 2018, suggesting more people are currently using cannabis than they were a year ago. Additionally, the number of rejecters decreased from 40 percent in 2017 to 38 percent in 2018, implying the tolerance and acceptance of cannabis is becoming more common.
www.forbes.com/...
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