ArticleCanadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2019
Availability of legalized cannabis reduces demand for illegal cannabis among Canadian cannabis users: evidence from a behavioural economic substitution paradigm.
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- Concurrent validity of the marijuana purchase task: a meta-analysis of trait-level cannabis demand and cannabis involvement.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2023Pooled it
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of delay discounting and cannabis use.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2021Pooled it
- Hypothetical food purchase tasks and eating behavior: A systematized review and future directions.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2026Review
- Preliminary validation of an experimental cannabis marketplace and its psychometric properties against an established measure of cannabis demand.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2026Article
- How tax structures for retail cannabis shape cannabis use among youth and young adults: evidence from a volumetric choice experiment.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2026Article
- High stakes: how legal cannabis pricing impacts the illicit market.Journal of cannabis research · 2026Article
- Is toke cheap? Correspondence between cannabis demand and purchase in the laboratory.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Article
- Clinical pain intensity is associated with greater cannabis demand among people who regularly use cannabis.Pain reports · 2026Article
- Exploring the suitability of cannabis use with next-day responsibilities: A behavioral-economic and qualitative study.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2025Article
- Cannabis consumers' preferences for legal and illegal cannabis: evidence from a discrete choice experiment.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Utility of a brief measure of cannabis demand: Day-level associations with cannabis use.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2024Article
- Contextual and psychosocial factors influencing drug reward in humans: The importance of non-drug reinforcement.Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior · 2024Review
- Where Do Adults in the United States Obtain Cannabis? A Nationally Representative Study Examining the Relationships Between Sociodemographic Factors, Cannabis Use Characteristics and Sources of Cannabis.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2024Article
- Examining attributes of retailers that influence where cannabis is purchased: a discrete choice experiment.Journal of cannabis research · 2024Article
- Cannabis demand and use among veterans: A prospective examination.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2023Article
- Exponentiated model of drug demand is preferred over exponential models in people with daily/near daily cannabis use.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Behavioral economic relationship between cannabis flower and concentrates: Evidence from simulated purchase tasks.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Reliability of an adaptive marijuana purchase task.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Behavioral economic relationship between cannabis and cigarettes: Evidence from hypothetical purchase tasks.The International journal on drug policy · 2023Article
- "That's Pot Culture Right There": Purchasing Behaviors of People Who Use Cannabis Without a Medical Cannabis Card.Cannabis (Albuquerque, N.M.) · 2023Article
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Abstract
In the context of cannabis legalization, an important question among clinicians, policymakers, and the public is whether availability of legal cannabis will significantly reduce consumption (demand) of illegal cannabis. Using paradigms from behavioural economics, we tested the prediction that legal cannabis would be an asymmetrical substitute for illegal cannabis, with legal cannabis operating as a superior commodity based on its regulated status. In a sample of 289 adult cannabis users in Ontario, we found evidence of substitutability for both legal and illegal cannabis, but significantly lower substitutability of illegal for legal cannabis, a pattern that was also present for price elasticity (α) and P
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