The distance from school to shop explained little

On a map it looks straightforward. There is the school, and there is the nearest cannabis shop. Canadian researchers compared store locations with 419,887 student survey responses across four provinces in 2018–2023 and found no consistent link between retail accessibility and whether adolescents used cannabis. In 2018, greater access was linked to more frequent use among students who already used cannabis, but the association was no longer statistically significant in later years. The study did not look at where adolescents obtained it.