Jessica Kruger
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It is because it's a kind of one-to-one switch out.
And these cans could look like a can of alcohol, especially they kind of are in the shape of like a white cloth.
So if people don't know exactly what you're drinking or you have a nice koozie on it, it could be a great way for that social elixir to hit when you're out with others.
Yeah, that was definitely an interesting finding, right?
Binge drinking is a really challenging health topic because people binge drink for a lot of different reasons.
And oftentimes people don't recognize the definition of binge drinking.
And so we wanted to add that as a question in our survey, and we're surprised that it did reduce that, especially because people were switching it out and having very few cannabis beverages as a replacement.
Absolutely.
It's always a concern when you're switching out one product to another, especially because cannabis can be addictive and that's often not recognized.
But when we think about the overall harms and we're still understanding what those harms are when it comes to ingesting cannabis beverages, we do know that alcohol is dangerous, right?
There's no safe level of alcohol.
But if cannabis beverages are
can reduce some of that risk compared to smoking cannabis and other modalities.
This could be a promising alternative for folks.
If we told you, we'd have to kill you.
We don't actually work right now with anyone who makes these, but we understand there's a few different ways.
So similar to taking product oil and mixing that with a liquid to make these beverages.
One thing we haven't explored, though, that's interesting, some people brought up is, is it carbonation?
Does carbonation have an effect on these?
Because some of these beverages are carbonated and some are not.