Brown University researchers run joint-and-drink study to find alcohol consumption falls after smoking cannabis
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GLP-1s like ozempic also reduce drinking, which is likely a bigger problem for liquor companies.
recently medicaid/ said they wont cover the drug next year, something tells me alcohol liqour lobbyist had something do with it, came at the same time the shudtdown ended with the bill that would ban said thc molecules.
I expect a lot more lobbying coming from big alcohol simply because kids are drinking less. Alcohol is getting more expensive and becoming less cool.
thats how the bill wound up with the ban on hemp/thc products, mitch mcconnel is in knee deep with the alcohol industry.