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Record W4399828214 · doi:10.32920/26060704.v1

Market Area Characteristics of Cannabis Dispensaries in Chicago

2024· preprint· en· W4399828214 on OpenAlexaff
Daniel Council

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicCannabis and Cannabinoid Research
Canadian institutionsToronto Metropolitan UniversityStatistics Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCannabisBusinessMedicinePsychiatry

Abstract

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The sale of legal, recreational cannabis is a new and emerging market. Dispensaries are opening rapidly as more states legalize the substance, creating a need for research into their geographic distribution and the impact of policy, which varies by state and municipality. This research uses the city of Chicago, Illinois, as a case study to examine the spatial distribution of cannabis dispensaries and aims to understand the demographic makeup of their trade areas by aggregating numerous census variables. Furthermore, it asks the questions: are the populations living within trade areas different from those outside? Can dispensaries in Chicago be classified by their trade areas? To answer these questions, statistical methods including comparing means and cluster analysis are used in addition to methods that employed Geographic Information Systems (GIS), with findings revealing a striking divide in dispensary coverage favoring the city's north side. Additionally, demographic differences were noted when comparing the demographics of trade areas to other geographies. It is vital that spatial research into this topic is continued as the cannabis industry is rapidly growing and impacted by changes in policy.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.065
Threshold uncertainty score0.129

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.302
Teacher spread0.282 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2024
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