Response to Commentaries: new data sources for understanding cannabis markets.
Response to Commentaries: new data sources for understanding cannabis markets.
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对评论的回应:了解大麻市场的新数据源。
DOI:
10.1111/add.14051
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2017
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通讯作者:
Midgette,Greg
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作者:
Smart,Rosanna;Caulkins,JonathanP;Kilmer,Beau;Davenport,Steven;Midgette,Greg
Reply by current authors to the comments made by Beatriz H. Carlin (see record 2017-50152-007) & Jason Williams et al.(see record 2017-50152-008) on the original article (see record 2017-29462-001). Authors thank Carlini and Williams et al. for their comments. Authors agree with all of them. Carlini observes that the changes we document are just one dimension of a suite of innovations in cannabis industry practice. One myth of legalization is that things would remain more or less as before, but without the arrests. Instead, using language from the industrial organization literature, the ‘structure, conduct and performance’of an industry is shaped by its environment. This paper advertises the potential utility of a novel data source, and Williams et al. rightly observe that the data have limitations and should be improved. This relates to a recurring theme in the age of big data analytics. Compared to large administrative data sets,‘traditional’data collected by scientists for research purposes tend to be ‘cleaner’, have greater construct validity and offer greater comparability across jurisdictions and over time; surveys of users are a paradigmatic example.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)