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This story Scott jumped out to me when I was reading the New York Times and then discovered

quite a few other publications have talked about it as well.

And the title of this article from this week is Cannabis Tops Alcohol as Americans Daily Drug

of Choice.

Now legally and conversationally we have seen marijuana become more and more

accepted but this kind of stopped me in my tracks to go wow it's actually

surpassing alcohol depending on how you gauge this. Now here's some of

things the article points out. It says in 2022 there were 17.7 million people who reported using cannabis either every day or nearly every day.

That compares to 14.7 million who reported using alcohol with the same level of frequency.

So 3 million more people using cannabis daily or nearly daily compared to alcohol.

Now a couple nuances of this.

They say that far, while far more people drink than use cannabis,

drinking frequently has become slightly less common than it was around 15 years ago.

So more people drink alcohol than use marijuana,

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