10/12/2025
What are your views? Have you managed to cut down on alcohol too?
Researchers in Canada ran a housing program for people with severe alcohol addiction.
Every day, residents could choose between their usual alcohol dose or a cannabis joint. Nobody forced anything. They were simply given the choice.
The result was that people who took the cannabis option drank way less.
Before w**d was available, residents averaged 8 drinks daily from the program. After, it went down to 6.5. For every joint someone chose, they skipped about 2.5 drinks.
This matters because alcohol destroys your liver, heart, and brain. Cannabis has risks too, but they're nowhere near as severe.
When people with serious drinking problems cut their intake by choosing w**d instead, that's preventing real damage.
This challenges everything about traditional addiction treatment, which demands total abstinence.
These folks weren't trying to quit everything. They just wanted safer lives. Having a lower-risk option helped them drink significantly less.
The pattern shows up everywhere. Lab studies, real-world data, even market trends. When cannabis is available, alcohol consumption drops.
This isn't going to cure addiction. It's about giving people choices that reduce harm.
And often, that's exactly what’s needed.
