Youth Engagement and Influence in Online Cannabis Communities: A Longitudinal Analysis of r/Dabs and r/DailyDabbers

This is the Data Repository for Youth Engagement and Influence in Online Cannabis Communities: A Longitudinal Analysis of r/Dabs and r/DailyDabbers

This dataset supports the manuscript “Youth Engagement and Influence in Online Cannabis Communities: A Longitudinal Analysis of r/Dabs and r/DailyDabbers.” It contains cleaned Reddit posts and comments, along with derived network measures and classification outputs, used to analyze youth participation, influencer dynamics, and topic evolution across two cannabis-focused communities. Data were collected via Arctic Shift scraping, organized into growth epochs, and supplemented with LLM-based user age classification and BERTopic topic modeling. These files provide the underlying evidence for the paper’s findings and can be rehydrated or extended for future computational social science and public health research.

Contributors : Jackson Sorenson*, Emma MacKenzie, and Dhiraj Murthy