A little bit greater than 5 years for the reason that legalization of hashish, most Village Media readers assume that it was a good suggestion, and about half have used it recreationally sooner or later, or are open to the concept

We ran two on-line polls this week about hashish: one requested about your expertise with it, and the opposite about your view of legalization:

Ladies, apparently, had been extra prone to assume that legalization had been a nasty thought:

Ladies had been additionally extra prone to say that they’d no expertise with it and little interest in making an attempt it sooner or later. Ladies had been a bit of extra seemingly than males to say that they’d began utilizing solely after legalization; this matches the outcomes of different polls displaying a gaggle of girls who had been open to hashish generally, however uncomfortable dealing with the illegal market when weed was nonetheless unlawful.

Use of hashish and views of legalization are strongly linked to age …

… and in addition to political occasion affiliation, with Liberal, Inexperienced and NDP supporters in a single cluster and PCs within the different:

In the case of use, PC and Liberal supporters look very related. The distinction seems to be {that a} bigger section of Liberals favour legalization, whereas having little interest in utilizing hashish personally.

Readers born outdoors Canada had been much less open to utilizing hashish:

Mashing the 2 polls up, we see a considerable group of non-users who help legalization. We additionally see a small however attention-grabbing group of people that use hashish however oppose legalization.

For our enjoyable random mashup this week, we mix expertise with hashish with attitudes to the way forward for the monarchy. Help for a Canadian republic correlates with openness to hashish, although to be honest there’s a substantial group who’re pleased with each their King and their weed.