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Michael J Armstrong, university professor
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Associate professor of operations research at Brock University. Teaching quality improvement & game theory. Studying cannabis legalization & tactical missile defense. brocku.ca/goodman/faculty-research/faculty-directory/michael-armstrong/
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FYI: I emailed BlueSky's tech support. They said they'd had an outage that affected custom feeds like #EpiSky#EconSky (from Sunday to Tuesday I think), but it had been resolved,

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Overall, many patients left the medical cannabis system after recreational cannabis became legal. But the remaining patients used the system more. So, the medical system changed substantially but didn't go obsolete.

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The mean size of patients' cannabis purchases remained stable after the law passed & after stores opened. But it began rising steadily when edibles arrived.

Line plot showing the average number of cannabis packages per patient order, 2017-2022.
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Among registered patients, purchase frequencies had been decreasing. That didn't change when the law passed but accelerated slightly after legal stores opened. Purchase frequencies stabilized after edibles became available.

Line plot showing medical cannabis purchases per 100 registered patients, 2017-2022.
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Patient registrations slowed after the law passed in Jun 2018. The province with the highest rate, Alberta, saw it plummet. Provinces with low rates saw them keep rising. Registrations didn't change when legal sales began in Oct 2018, but fell more after edibles became legal in Dec 2019.

Line plot showing medical cannabis registration rates in Alberta, Ontario, and British Columbia, 2017-2022.
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Yes! It was blank last night & this morning, but it works now. Thanks for checking. Also, thanks for creating this feed. 🙂

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"War is the continuation of politics with other means." Normally the army "continues" international politics to coerce other countries. But authoritarians seem to use the army to "continue" domestic politics vs their population. So, flashy uniforms & grand parades, but less competence.

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Sorry, I've emailed you a gift link.

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If you live in Kazakhstan, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, anywhere within a few hundred kilometres of the Caspian Sea, and want to help track Russian 🇷🇺 and Iranian 🇮🇷 arms shipments, you can actually help in a very tangible way.

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Me too. :)

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Michael J Armstrong, university professor
@profmjarmstrong.bsky.social
Associate professor of operations research at Brock University. Teaching quality improvement & game theory. Studying cannabis legalization & tactical missile defense. brocku.ca/goodman/faculty-research/faculty-directory/michael-armstrong/
34 followers42 following26 posts