No, you can't answer it and so you dismiss it. YOU have a big problem with the UGLY REALITY of your ideas. Denial is not just a river in Egypt.
The Platzspitz experiment was a test of YOUR IDEAS. They failed miserably. Legalized Opium was a much larger and much wider test of YOUR IDEAS. They failed massively.
What we can learn from real world experiments is that drugs kill people. Lots of people.
So do cars and fries and whiskey and stupid.
Why should we care if somebody decides to kill themselves?
Oh, and this thread is about POT, not heroin. Or meth or any of that other stuff.
So statistical significance is measured by time? Interesting. How long a time period will yield statistically significant conclusions?
Well I can tell you 60 years certainly yielded sufficient conclusions in the case of China. At needle park (Platzspitz Switzerland) it only took a few years.
Irrelevant evasions and a big graphic - very impressive.
No, you can't answer it and so you dismiss it.
It was irrelevant to the topic we'd been discussing - see the first line above. The answer to my question is: no, statistical significance is NOT measured by time ... it's measured by number of data points, and even then there's no one single number that implies statistical significance in all cases. So not only was your statement, "Six months is too small of a sample to draw any meaningful conclusions" not right - it was so stupid it wasn't even wrong.
Now as to your new topic:
The Platzspitz experiment was a test of YOUR IDEAS. They failed miserably.
No, legalization in a single small park wasn't the idea of anybody except the nitwits who implemented it; hyperconcentrating a region's drug sellers and users had the readily foreseeable consequences.
Legalized Opium was a much larger and much wider test of YOUR IDEAS. They failed massively.
A closer test was what happened in THIS COUNTRY in the same timeframe when opium and other drugs were legal - the answer is: nothing like what happened in China.