Twitter activity surrounding the Finnish green party's cannabis legalisation proposal: A mixed-methods analysis.

ABSTRACT: Background: In September 2021, a Finnish political party, the Greens, voted to include cannabis policy reform in their party programme, which would legalise the use, possession, manufacture and sale of cannabis. A rapid public discussion has emerged on different social media platforms, including Twitter. Methods: We downloaded 10 days of Twitter data and prepared it for further text analysis, including sentiment, topic modelling and thematic content analysis. Results: Before the proposal, the average daily number of tweets was approximately 140. However, during the week of the proposal, there was a significant increase in tweet volume, reaching a peak of 6,600 tweets on a single day, with a daily average of over 2,700 tweets. Sentiment analysis showed that during the p

SUBMITTER: Unlu A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10688398 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature