the study involved 1,100 eaze customers and asked about the role that cannabis plays in their lives. nearly half of the respondents said they are microdosing before beginning work and nearly 40 per cent said that they turn to cannabis to boost their productivity, per adweek.
“it’s not about waking up and hitting a bong,” elizabeth ashford, senior director of communications at eaze, told adweek.
those findings are in line with the results of a survey commissioned by curaleaf holdings, inc., a massachusetts-based cannabis company, last december.
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conducted by the harris poll and involving nearly 2,000 u.s. adults, more than half of respondents said they turned to cannabis to reduce stress and anxiety, while 50 per cent said they consumed cannabis to relax.
closer to home, a study led by the centre for addiction and mental health (camh) and published in the journal of addiction medicine earlier this year, found that canadians increased their cannabis consumption during the first wave of the pandemic.