Monitoring the sentiment of cannabis‐related tweets in the lead up to New Zealand's cannabis referendum

In October 2020, New Zealanders will vote on whether cannabis should be legalised for recreational use. With this in mind, the aim of the present study is to gauge the views and opinions of the New Zealand population on cannabis via tweets. To achieve this, we conducted a sentiment analysis of all historic cannabis-related tweets and referendum-specific tweets written in New Zealand.We used a Twitter-sponsored commercial platform to access all...