In:
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Vol. 15 ( 2021-05-22), p. 14-25
Abstract:
Cannabis legalization has been welcomed by many U.S. states but its role in escalation from tobacco e-cigarette use to cannabis vaping is unclear. Meanwhile, cannabis vaping has been associated with new lung diseases and rising adolescent use. To understand the impact of cannabis legalization on escalation, we design an observational study to estimate the causal effect of recreational cannabis legalization on the development of pro-cannabis attitude for e-cigarette users. We collect and analyze Twitter data which contains opinions about cannabis and JUUL, a very popular e-cigarette brand. We use weakly supervised learning for personal tweet filtering and classification for stance detection. We discover that recreational cannabis legalization policy has an effect on increased development of pro-cannabis attitudes for users already in favor of e-cigarettes.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
2334-0770
,
2162-3449
DOI:
10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18037
Language:
Unknown
Publisher:
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Publication Date:
2021
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