607. Is America Switching From Booze to Weed?

We have always been a nation of drinkers — but now there are more daily users of cannabis than alcohol. Considering alcohol’s harms, maybe that’s a good thing. But some people worry that the legalization of cannabis has outpaced the research. (Part one of a four-part series .) SOURCES: Jon Caulkins , professor of operations research and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Yasmin Hurd , director of the Addiction Institute at Mount Sinai. Michael Siegel , professor of public health and community medicine at Tufts University. Tom Standage , deputy editor of The Economist. Ryan Stoa , associate professor of law at Louisiana State University. RESOURCES: " Cannabis Tops Alcohol as Americans’ Daily Drug of Choice ," by Christina Caron ( The New York Times, 2024). " Deaths from Excessive Alcohol Use — United States, 2016–2021 ," by Marissa B. Esser, Adam Sherk, Yong Liu, and Timothy S. Naimi ( Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2024). " Nixon Started the War on Drugs. Privately, He Said Pot Was ‘Not Particularly Dangerous ,'" by Ernesto Londoño ( The New York Times, 2024). " A Brief Global History of the War on Cannabis ," by Ryan Stoa ( The MIT Press Reader, 2020). Craft Weed…