Legal Weed Causes Higher Unemployment?

dr Mehmet Oz, the Republican Party’s senator candidate for Pennsylvania, has claimed that legalizing cannabis could lead to higher unemployment rates. But finding evidence for his hypothesis is not easy.

Republican Mehmet Oz, who is currently awaiting the verdict of a very close US Senate primary against David McCormick, the former CEO of hedge funds in Pennsylvania, began a cannabis fringe ahead of Election Day while he was unsettled. In short, he explained that people who smoke weed will not want to work, which in turn will drastically increase the unemployment rate, which is already high in Pennsylvania (The Keystone State).

In fact, he can’t prove the link between weed and unemployment, but some people can. One of those people who broke down his false claims and fact-checked the issue was Newsweek. They found out he was wrong and this is why.

His statement

When Oz spoke to Newsmax about cannabis in May, he made a lot of pretty ridiculous claims. For example, giving pot to Pennsylvanians to keep them at home is not the right move. He explained that he did not want to develop a cannabis addiction, which was not a physical but an emotional addiction. He went on to say that he does not want people operating heavy machinery near him, that is, driving around him, when they have their fourth spliff that day.

But most notably, he said he didn’t want young people to think they had to smoke a joint to leave the house in the morning. He said we need to get Pennsylvanians back to work and give them their spark back, and he doesn’t want cannabis to be an obstacle to that.

Why everything is a sham

We have yet to determine the reasons on which Dr. Oz backed its employment and marijuana assumptions. As pointed out by media outlets such as Newsweek and Leafy, this claim is simply absurd and based heavily on assumption rather than fact.

According to statistics from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, the periodically adjusted unemployment rate for Keystone state was 4.8%, among the highest in the country. That’s slightly more than the country’s unemployment rate. Of course, this is just a rough measurement because while few states have fully legalized cannabis, many of them have legalized cannabis for medicinal purposes.

In addition, states such as Nevada, California and New Mexico have higher than average unemployment rates, ie (between 4.6% and 5.3%). With all of that said, Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate is one of the highest in the country, higher even than many other states that have legalized recreational cannabis.

California, Nevada, and New Mexico are just a few of the states that have legalized cannabis and have high unemployment rates, but there are also states like Texas and Delaware, like Pennsylvania, where cannabis is not legal but the unemployment rate is above average

if dr If Oz really wanted to get the facts straight, he knew that a cannabis-supportive economy (recreational or medical) provides jobs in Pennsylvania. Talking about tax revenues from legitimate sales that support social programs that could theoretically alleviate unemployment and boost substance abuse and mental health initiatives.

His correspondence in which weed increases the unemployment rate just doesn’t work because apparently there are also several factors at work that have absolutely nothing to do with cannabis. And let’s not even begin to talk about the delusion that marijuana makes people lazy.

Additionally, there is substantial evidence that cannabis legalization is creating new opportunities for growth, business and employment.

Research conducted by California Polytechnic University and the University of New Mexico found that areas where cannabis dispensaries are found have higher employment rates. The jobs created by legalizing marijuana outweigh any negative aspects of legalization.

Using data from the state of Colorado, another study found that the sale of recreational cannabis through dispensaries was associated with a 0.7 percentage point decrease in the employment rate and a 4.5 percent increase in the total workforce.

The judgment?

If Oz wins the Republican primary in November, he will then run for a seat in the United States Senate against Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman (D). The lieutenant governor, who won the Democratic ticket in May’s majority vote, is known to be a cannabis advocate and a pro-weed politician who is pushing for cannabis legalization at both the state and federal levels.

Mostly seen in relaxed, unofficial attire, marijuana leaf t-shirts, shorts and (most shockingly) hoodies… the senator knows what he stands for and hasn’t strayed from his platform. dr Oz is firmly opposed to legalizing marijuana at the federal or state level. That is not what voters want. Support for cannabis reform is the highest since 2021.

With cannabis now legal in 19 states, Rhode Island being last, along with Washington DC, the United States is leaning towards cannabis and not away.

This claim by Dr. Oz doesn’t appear to be based on any concrete evidence. Because employment statistics alone cannot be used to determine whether cannabis legalization is affecting unemployment rates, they are not robust enough to suggest a correlation between work and weed.

bottom line

Although cannabis is not yet fully legalized, the state of Keystone, where Dr. Oz aims to become a Senator beginning April 2022, one of the highest unemployment rates in the United States. While some states that have legalized both recreational and medical cannabis have lower unemployment rates. There is significant evidence that cannabis legalization is reducing unemployment and boosting businesses. These facts refute Dr. Oz’s entire claim of relating unemployment to cannabis.

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