HALIFAX — Wastewater tested in Halifax in 2023 contained almost twice the amount of cannabis metabolites compared with samples taken from other big cities in Canada, like Toronto or Montreal.
The results are from a survey conducted in November 2023 by Statistics Canada, which tracked various drug metabolites in the wastewater in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Saskatoon, Edmonton and Vancouver.
The project started in 2019 as a way to measure substance consumption because “drugs, and in particular illicit drugs, can be very difficult to understand” using traditional survey methods, Oliver said. “This data shows that high rate of cannabis use in our population, and that’s concerning," he said,"but what this doesn’t show is the age group of the people using, or the potency of the product.”
“I think historically, even before legalization, it tends to be the case that we see intergenerational use” of cannabis, Tibbo said, such as parents smoking weed and using it around their teenage or young adult children, who then consume the drug. It’s also possible that Halifax’s large university and college student population is contributing to the high levels, though there’s no way to know without demographic use data, Tibbo said.
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